# Help with Wolfe Quote Needed

*The Urth list — 1 messages, 1 voices, 13 Jul 2002*

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### Robert Borski
*13 Jul 2002, 05:29*

Can anyone tell me where the Wolfe essay, "What I Know About Writing,"
appeared?

I'm trying to source the following quote: "Almost any interesting work of
art comes close to saying the opposite of what it really says."

Much obliged to anyone who can point me in the right direction.

Robert Borski

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