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

• There is a tension in relationships between wanting to return to the womb, but also wanting to be free. Because sometimes the woman's attentions can be overly maternal, and you want to go, 'Ahhhh!'

  

  Ralph Fiennes
  • Free
  • Woman
  • Relationships

• 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

• I don't always see my movies right away. And there are some I haven't seen at all. Sometimes that bothers the directors, so I'm obliged to see them.

  

  Emmanuelle Beart

• 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

• I think readers are always patient. Look at the 'Harry Potter' series. Some have given up on this generation of kids as game and TV addicts, but lots of people spend lots of time patiently reading through hundreds of pages of dense prose. I think reading a comic by comparison is a lot more immediate.

  

  Dave Gibbons
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• That's what happens nowadays with people working on computers. They can so easily fix things with their mouse and take out all the, 'Oh, somebody coughed in the background; we need to take that out' - or somebody hit a bad note. Those are all the best moments.

  

  Jack White The White Stripes
  • People
  • Bad
  • Best

• I am alone. No one stands beside me. I have no Dark Prince to ride in my chariot, to walk with me, to hold me to him. I have no one. And yet. I myself, at last, I have myself. And to me, at this time, it seems enough. It seems more, much more, than enough.

  

  Tanith Lee
  • Time
  • Alone
  • Dark

• A man must make his opportunity, as oft as find it.

  

  Francis Bacon
  • Opportunity

• The most exciting thing in the twentieth century is science.

  

  John Charles Polanyi
  • Science

• Well, fancy giving money to the Government! Might as well have put it down the drain. Fancy giving money to the Government! Nobody will see the stuff again. Well, they've not idea what money's for- Ten to one they'll start another war. I've heard a lot of silly things, but, Lor'! Fancy giving money to the Government!

  

  A. P. Herbert
  • Money
  • War
  • Giving

• 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