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.
Quotes to Explore
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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.
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Taste is the common sense of genius.
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I would really love to work with Clint Eastwood.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Style is the substance of the subject called unceasingly to the surface.
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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.
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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.
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We wish we were doing it, of course, under much better circumstances, but this man was loved. For Chris.
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Do your little bit of good where you are; it's those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.
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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.
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Television knows no night. It is perpetual day. TV embodies our fear of the dark, of night, of the other side of things.
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I think, probably, my best asset would probably be my all round game.
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People tend to overstate my resilience, but, of course, I hope they're right.
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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.
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Is any man free except the one who can pass his life as he pleases?
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You noticed from last night, we only did two from the 80s. And our set's two hours long.
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Stop thinking about writing as art. Think of it as work. If you’re an artist, whatever you do is going to be art. If you’re not an artist, at least you can do a good day’s work.
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Love is like a reservoir of kindness and pleasure, like silos and pools during a siege.
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If I could distil the relevance of Bruce Springsteen's music to Australia it would be this: don't let what has happened to the American economy happen here. Don't let Australia become a down-under version of New Jersey, where the people and the communities whose skills are no longer in demand get thrown on the scrap heap of life.
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I'm attracted to things that make a point or have a certain point of view, but it's not a conscious thing that I decide to do every morning. Unconsciously, what I like has a social commentary in it, or it's about race, or it's risky to do. That's what I like doing.
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The mind may find unique ways to express what it conceives of reality, but reality remains unchanged by the mind's efforts.
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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.
