Quotes by : Gene Wolfe

And as if by magic - and it may have been magic, for I believe America is the land of magic, and that....

If you have a machine with three or four parts, you can shake them up in a box and it's still pretty....

You never learn how to write a novel. You just learn how to write the novel that you're writing.

It seems to me that you can almost define civilization by saying it's people who are not willing to hurt....

What a man knows hardly matters. It is what he does.

But I was awake, sitting by the window looking down at the trailer and Mr. Zoltan's truck. I could not....

I was miserable before I knew I was no longer happy

Just as the room of the Inquisitor in Dr. Talos's play, with its high judicial bench, lurked somewhere....

It is well, I think, for us to learn to tell evil from good; but it has its price, as everything does.....

I have no way of knowing whether you, who eventually will read this record, like stories or not. If you....