“I struggle against easy writing. Long ago somebody said, ‘Easy writing makes damned hard reading.’ He was right. ‘Nick was a bad man and a cruel man.’ That’s easy. I know I can’t say it at all. I have to show [Nick] being bad and cruel in the context of the story. That’s always hard.”
Gene Wolf
From An Interview with Gene Wolfe
Clarkesworld Magazine
August 2008
