Best Quotes by Gene Wolfe (Top 10)

  1. My definition of good literature is that which can be read by an educated reader, and reread with increased pleasure.
  2. All novels are fantasies. Some are more honest about it.
  3. People don't want other people to be people.
  4. Weak people believe what is forced on them. Strong people what they wish to believe, forcing that to be real.
  5. You never learn how to write a novel. You just learn how to write the novel that you're writing.
  6. Imagine a man who stands before a mirror; a stone strikes it, and it falls to ruin all in an instant. And the man learns that he is himself, and not the mirrored man he had believed himself to be.
  7. We believe that we invent symbols. The truth is that they invent us; we are their creatures, shaped by their hard defining edges.
  8. Knowledge is soon changed, then lost in the mist, an echo half-heard.
  9. We think that we know a man or a woman, when so much of what we know is actually that man's or that woman's situation, his or her place on the board of life. Move the pawn to the last row and see her rise in armor, sword in hand.
  10. There is no limit to stupidity. - Space itself is said to be bounded by its own curvature, but stupidity continues beyond infinity.