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• Some writers say they cannot write in front of a window; many say they cannot function without almost perfect quiet. A writer with only two hours a day can write in the back of an open truck on the Interstate.

  Gene Wolfe

  Writing, Almost Perfect, Two

  Gene Wolfe (1995). “Castle of Days”, p.221, Macmillan

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• One can't found a novel theology on Nothing, and nothing is so secure a foundation as a contradiction. Look at the great successes of the past--they say their deities are the masters of all the universes, and yet that they require grandmothers to defend them, as if they were children frightened by poultry. Or that the authority that punishes no one while there exists a chance for reformation will punish everyone when there is no possibility anyone will become the better for it.

  Gene Wolfe

  Children, Grandmother, Past

  Gene Wolfe (1994). “Shadow & Claw: The First Half of 'The Book of the New Sun'”, p.57, Macmillan

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• We have treatments for disturbed persons, Nicholas. But, at least for the time being, we have no treatment for disturbing persons.

  Gene Wolfe

  Treatment, Disturbed, Persons

  Gene Wolfe (2009). “The Best of Gene Wolfe: A Definitive Retrospective of His Finest Short Fiction”, p.102, Macmillan

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• ...in some situations winning consist[s] of disentangling oneself.

  Gene Wolfe

  Winning, Situation, Oneself

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• Have a short story feature two situations, and then let them solve each other.

  Gene Wolfe

  Writing, Two, Stories

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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.

  Gene Wolfe

  Doubt, Stories, Closure

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• We only have one dog now. Calamity Jane had to be put down. She was very old, and her medicine no longer controlled her seizures. Dilly is five now, I think. He's a neutered American Pit Bull Terrier, very gentle, about the color of buckskin.

  Gene Wolfe

  Dog, Thinking, Color

  "Shadows of the New Sun: Wolfe on Writing/Writers on Wolfe". Book by Gene Wolfe, 2007.

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• I was trapped in admiration for what I had once admired, as a fly in amber remains the captive of some long-vanished pine.

  Gene Wolfe

  Long, Amber, Admiration

  Gene Wolfe (1994). “Shadow & Claw: The First Half of 'The Book of the New Sun'”, p.221, Macmillan

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• I could speculate, but it would be just speculation and the kind of thing that you would get in with a science fiction story. And if I was doing a science fiction story then I would come up with what can go wrong with this system.

  Gene Wolfe

  Writing, Fiction Stories, Would Be

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• I get a lot of people complaining about my ambiguity, often in cases which there is nothing ambigous at all. As far as I can see, people read it when they were half stoned and listening to the TV. Then they come back and say gee, it's impossible to figure out what's going on in a story.

  Gene Wolfe

  Writing, People, Listening

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• All the history of the stage is a struggle, the gasping of a beautiful child born at the point of death. The moralists, censorship and oppression, technology, and now poverty have all tried to destroy her. Only we, the actors and audiences, have kept her alive.

  Gene Wolfe

  Beautiful, Art, Children

  Gene Wolfe (2009). “The very best of Gene Wolfe: a definitive retrospective of his finest short fiction”

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