Gene Wolfe Quotes

• Hope is a psychological mechanism unaffected by external realities.

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• Time turns our lies into truths.

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• My whole life experience feeds into my writing. I think that must be true for every writer. Clearly the Army and combat were major influences; just the same, you need to understand that many of the writers we have now couldn’t load a revolver.

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• 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.

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• I have read only the first ‘Harry Potter’ book. I thought it excellent, perhaps the best thing written for older children since The Hobbit. I wish the books had been around when my kids were the right age for them.

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• He’s not rewarding us by talking to us. He’s talking to us because He has something to say to us directly, as opposed to the things He says to all humanity.

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• 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.

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• I don’t think anyone is more intrinsically holy. People experience God in many ways; and it seems to me that God does what the rest of us do: He chooses the means that best gets His message across.

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• A youthful American voice isn’t particularly challenging – I’ve been a young American, and they’re all around me. I can walk from my house to Barrington High School.

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• 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.

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• Online publication is fine with me, in part because I hope to collect those stories later.

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• Knowledge is soon changed, then lost in the mist, an echo half-heard.

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Gene Wolfe (12)

Birth:	7th May, 1931
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Novelist, Writer

About

Gene Rodman Wolfe was born in New York City, New York, USA. He is an American novelist and science fiction and fantasy writer. He has written several novels include: The Shadow of the Torturer, The Claw of the Conciliator, The Sword of the Lictor, The Citadel of the Autarch, Operation Ares, Soldier of the Mist, Soldier of Sidon, Nightside the Long Sun, Lake of the Long Sun, Caldé of the Long Sun, Exodus from the Long Sun, Free Live Free, The Urth of the New Sun, There Are Doors, On Blue's Waters, In Green's Jungles, Return to the Whorl, The Knight, The Wizard, Pirate Freedom, Home Fires, The Land Across, and A Borrowed Man. He has written several short stories include: The Island of Doctor Death and Other Stories and Other Stories, Storeys from the Old Hotel, Innocents Aboard, Starwater Strains, Castle of Days, Strange Travelers, and The Best of Gene Wolfe.

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