Gene Wolfe Quotes

Perhaps I need to begin before I can think clearly about the task. The chief thing is to begin, after all-after which the chief thing is to finish.

Gene Wolfe

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• 'The Secret River' began because, at the age of 50, I suddenly realised I knew nothing about how my own family had got its foothold in Australia.

  

  Kate Grenville
  • Family
  • Age
  • River

• Taste is the common sense of genius.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Genius
  • Common
  • Common Sense

• I would really love to work with Clint Eastwood.

  

  Randeep Hooda
  • Work
  • Love
  • Really

• Allow the president to invade a neighboring nation whenever he shall deem it necessary to repel an invasion,and you allow him to do so whenever he may choose to say he deems it necessary for such purpose - and you allow him to make war at pleasure.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • May
  • War
  • Purpose

• I love writing but hate starting. The page is awfully white, and it says, 'You may have fooled some of the people some of the time, but those days are over, giftless. I'm not your agent, and I'm not your mommy; I'm a white piece of paper. You wanna dance with me?' and I really, really don't. I'll go peaceable-like.

  

  Aaron Sorkin
  • People
  • Time
  • Writing

• I don't like gurus. I don't like people who ask you to follow or believe. I like people who ask you to think independently.

  

  A. S. Byatt
  • People
  • Believe
  • Think

• Style is the substance of the subject called unceasingly to the surface.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Style
  • Surface
  • Substance

• Literature is a beautiful way of keeping the imagination alive, of visiting worlds you would never have time to in your day-to-day life. It keeps you abreast of a wider spectrum of human activities.

  

  Abraham Verghese
  • Life
  • Time
  • Beautiful

• I haven't had that one great love, which is good. I don't want that to be in the past - I want it to be in the future.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Good
  • Great
  • Love

• He stretched his arms to the crystalline, radiant sky. 'I know myself,' he cried, 'but that is all - '

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Sky

• We wish we were doing it, of course, under much better circumstances, but this man was loved. For Chris.

  

  Axl Rose Guns N' Roses
  • Wish

• Do your little bit of good where you are; it's those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.

  

  Desmond Tutu
  • World
  • Good
  • Together

• What always made me proud - almost blushing with pride - is that Francis Coppola, Martin Scorsese, Steven Spielberg all told me that 'The Conformist' is their first modern influence.

  

  Bernardo Bertolucci
  • Proud
  • Pride

• Television knows no night. It is perpetual day. TV embodies our fear of the dark, of night, of the other side of things.

  

  Jean Baudrillard
  • Night
  • Fear
  • Dark

• I think, probably, my best asset would probably be my all round game.

  

  Katie Taylor
  • Game

• People tend to overstate my resilience, but, of course, I hope they're right.

  

  David Brudnoy
  • People
  • Hope
  • Resilience

• I've hung out in the writer's room a few times, but the fact is we've got such a good writing staff, I don't want to get my peanut butter fingerprints on anything.

  

  Patton Oswalt
  • Good
  • Writing

• Is any man free except the one who can pass his life as he pleases?

  

  Persius
  • Life
  • Free

• I’m always fascinated when people really fervently believe, because I have such a hard time believing anything. When people have real faith in something, it’s fascinating to me. And the fact that so many people, in surveys, so many people say they do. It kind of blows my mind.

  

  Conor Oberst Bright Eyes
  • People
  • Believe
  • Real

• The simple truth is, the short-term solution is for the FDA to allow more importation of safe vaccines from other nations. But the long-term solution is to get more vaccine production within the U.S.

  

  Larry Craig
  • Long
  • Truth
  • Simple

• Insider trading by hedge funds has a long and distinguished history, dating to the days when people didn't know that there was such a thing as a hedge fund.

  

  Gary Weiss
  • People
  • Long
  • History

• I watch a ton of movies. Going way back, I like 'The Godfather.' 'The Matrix' was one of my favorites - the first one; they got a little carried away after the first one. Those are two that stand out.

  

  J. B. Bickerstaff
  • Matrix
  • Godfather

• I saw 'A Night at the Opera,' this Marx Brothers film, when I was, like, six years old. I just became obsessed, you know?

  

  Brett Gelman
  • Film
  • A Night at the Opera
  • Marx Brothers

• Perhaps I need to begin before I can think clearly about the task. The chief thing is to begin, after all-after which the chief thing is to finish.

  

  Gene Wolfe