Books Quote by Walter Jon Williams

The things I write are for those who are willing to accept a new relationship between the reader and the author.

— Jerzy Kosinski

It's hard for a newbie author to get noticed.

— Patrick Rothfuss

There's certainly more new SF available than when I started writing. That means there's also more bad SF available. Whether there is also more…

— Alan Dean Foster

There are a lot of authors in the world, so it's difficult to find a unique niche to present your take on things. That…

— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

Authors like reading. Go figure. So it's not surprising that we sometimes bog down in the research stage of new writing projects.

— Edward M. Lerner

I'd like to encourage people to please keep reading-and most importantly, to please keep trying new writers. The only way we can bring fresh…

— Terri Windling

The biggest challenge of my career, which is something that authors of genre fiction face all the time, is writing something fresh and new…

— Julia Quinn

A new reader shouldn't be able to find you in your work, though someone who's read more may begin to.

— E. L. Doctorow

Readers themselves, I think, contribute to a book. They add their own imaginations, and it is as though the writer only gave them something…

— Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

I think new writers everywhere need opportunities to get published.

— Greg Egan

I read less of everything now. With only fond memories of others' work, it will be interesting to give my own journal writing a…

— Jonathan Carroll

Readers are paramount. I live to write books for them.

— Jeffery Deaver