Gene Wolfe Quotes


There is no magic. There is only knowledge more or less hidden. Gene Wolfe Magic 125
Weak people believe what is forced on them. Strong people what they wish to believe forcing that to be real. Gene Wolfe Weakness 91
Hope is a psychological mechanism unaffected by external realities. Gene Wolfe Reality 88
That we are capable only of being what we are remains our unforgivable sin. Gene Wolfe Sin 72
Whether the medium is ready for consumers is better judged by those consumers. I sometimes read online - but not often. The stigma is attached to pay scales. Much online publication is no pay or small pay. Gene Wolfe Attached 71
Ambiguity is necessary in some of my stories, not in all. In those, it certainly contributes to the richness of the story. I doubt that thematic closure is never attainable. Gene Wolfe Ambiguity 69
You seem to think that the only genuine existence evil can have is conscious existence - that no one is evil unless he admits it to himself. I disagree. Gene Wolfe Conscious 64
You believe me wise because I taught you once but I have not been north as you have. You have seen what I have never seen...You flatter me by asking my opinion. Gene Wolfe Knowledge 52
Knowledge is soon changed, then lost in the mist, an echo half-heard. Gene Wolfe Knowledge 43
My definition of good literature is that which can be read by an educated reader, and reread with increased pleasure. Gene Wolfe Literature 40
We are like children who look at print and see a serpent in the last letter but one and a sword in the last. Gene Wolfe Understanding 36
Time itself is a thing so it seems to me that stands solidly like a fence of iron palings with its endless row of years and we flow past like Gyoll on our way to a sea from which we shall return only as rain. Gene Wolfe Rain 36
Online publication is fine with me, in part because I hope to collect those stories later. Gene Wolfe Collect 36
You never learn how to write a novel. You just learn how to write the novel that youre writing. Gene Wolfe True 32
We can think only of creatures of things Hes made. Creatures are all we know and can be all we know until we know Him. When we think of Him like that we find we cant believe. He cant be like a creature any more than a carpenter is like a table. Gene Wolfe Belief 30
People dont want other people to be people. Gene Wolfe Selfishness 30
Time turns our lies into truths. Gene Wolfe Lies 30
It seems to me that you can almost define civilization by saying its people who are not willing to hurt other people because the other people are different. Gene Wolfe Civilization 29
We believe that we invent symbols. The truth is that they invent us we are their creatures shaped by their hard defining edges. Gene Wolfe Reality 28
What a man knows hardly matters. It is what he does. Gene Wolfe Honor 24

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