My whole life experience feeds into my writing. I think that must be true for every writer. Clearly the Army and combat were major influences; just... →
Gene Wolfe
The impossibility of a retreat makes no difference in the situation of men resolved to conquer or die; and, believe me, my friends, if your conquest... →
James Wolfe
If an alien visited Earth, they would take some note of humans, but probably spend most of their time trying to understand the dominant form of life... →
Nathan Wolfe
The world can now maintain an acute infection in a way that is unprecedented in the history of life on our planet.
Is this not the true romantic feeling; not to desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you.
Thomas Wolfe
The whole conviction of my life now rests upon the belief that loneliness, far from being a rare and curious phenomenon, peculiar to myself and to a... →
Tom Wolfe
I had always looked down on sociology as this arriviste discipline. It didn't have the noble history of English and history as a subject. But... →
This is the artist, then, life's hungry man, the glutton of eternity, beauty's miser, glory's slave.
Once you have speech, you don't have to wait for natural selection! If you want more strength, you build a stealth bomber; if you don't like... →
To me, novels are a trip of discovery, and you discover things that you don't know and you assume that many of your readers don't know, and... →