Books Quote by Walter Jon Williams

I know I'm a rare person, a trained scientist who writes fiction, because so few contemporary novelists engage with science.

— Barbara Kingsolver

Truly novel inventions emerge only in one's youth. Later one becomes ever more experienced, famous-and foolish.

— Albert Einstein

The secret of successful fiction is a continual slight novelty.

— Edmund Gosse

The most promising ideas begin from novelty and then add familiarity.

— Adam Grant

Fiction writing is just an excuse to go discover interesting things.

— Anthony Doerr

Novelty is seldom the essential... make a subject better from its intrinsic nature.

— Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

My experience is that an original and compelling idea for a novel is a rare thing.

— James Thayer

Novelty is both delightful and deceptive.

— Honore de Balzac

Human nature is fond of novelty.

— Pliny the Elder

Novelty always sparks ideas.

— Benji Madden

Science fiction is always a vehicle for ideas. It's the form which allows either movies or books to be an exploration of how we…

— Salman Rushdie

Science fiction offers an intensely bracing angle of view for writers to adopt, especially in a time of constant innovation and crisis, and it…

— John Clute