Gene Wolfe Quotes

"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."
- Gene Wolfe
(Related: American, School, Voice)

"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
(Related: Ambiguity, Doubt, Richness)

"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."
- Gene Wolfe
(Related: Humanity, Talking)

"Knowledge is soon changed, then lost in the mist, an echo half-heard."
- Gene Wolfe
(Related: Knowledge, Echo)

"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."
- Gene Wolfe
(Related: Experience, Life, Army, Now, Writer, Writers, Writing)

"Online publication is fine with me, in part because I hope to collect those stories later."
- Gene Wolfe
(Related: Hope)

"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

"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
(Related: Evil, Existence)

"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."
- Gene Wolfe
(Related: Experience, God, People, Rest)