Walter Jon Williams Quotes

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• Being a writer was never a choice, it was an irresistible compulsion.
• An SF author who reads only SF will have little new to contribute, but someone with a broader experience will bring more to the table.
• Everything that you read is an influence on everything you write, and you want to draw as many elements into your work as you can.
• Genre labels are useful only insofar as they help you find an audience.
• Right up till the 1980s, SF envisioned giant mainframe computers that ran everything remotely, that ingested huge amounts of information and regurgitated it in startling…
• The Internet offers an interesting combination of advertising and community - by participating in the community you can become an advertisement for yourself.
• I can't speak for the other authors, but what I hoped to achieve was to illuminate certain corners of the Lucas universe that hadn't yet…
• I want a platform that, like a book or a magazine, I can carry into the bath or leave at the beach.
• I've learned that I get blocked when my subconscious mind is telling me that I've taken the work in a wrong direction, and that once…
• Some of my ideas were shot down by Lucasfilm because they stepped on territory that has been reserved for the movies. I didn't have a…
• When state and religion are one, religion becomes a means for the powerful to remain in power.
• Science fiction readers probably have the gene for novelty, and seem to enjoy a cascade of invention as much as a writer enjoys providing one.
• Even if you only want to write science fiction, you should also read mysteries, poetry, mainstream literature, history, biography, philosophy, and science.
• I'm in favor of any technology that makes my work available to the reading public at a reasonable price.
• I found college useful for a lot of other reasons. It exposed me to a great many influences I wouldn't otherwise have encountered, and gave…
• How long it takes to write a book depends on its length.
• If you can find collaborators whose strengths compliment your own, the result can be more than the sum of its authors.
• Now I have to motivate myself much more than I had previously.
• It's a tough job to tell a story when the audience already knows the ending, and the ending is bleak.
• That's why editors and publishers will never be obsolete: a reader wants someone with taste and authority to point them in the direction of the…

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