"Being a writer was never a choice, it……" — Walter Jon Williams
"Being a writer was never a choice, it was an irresistible compulsion."
—
Walter Jon Williams
★
★
★
★
★
0.0 avg (0 ratings)
33 Quotes by Walter Jon Williams
Walter Jon Williams has 33 quotes on this site.
A few more worth reading:
-
An SF author who reads only SF will have little new to contribute, but someone with a broader experience will…
-
Everything that you read is an influence on everything you write, and you want to draw as many elements into…
-
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…
-
The Internet offers an interesting combination of advertising and community - by participating in the community you can become an…
-
I can't speak for the other authors, but what I hoped to achieve was to illuminate certain corners of the…
-
I want a platform that, like a book or a magazine, I can carry into the bath or leave at…
-
I've learned that I get blocked when my subconscious mind is telling me that I've taken the work in a…
-
Some of my ideas were shot down by Lucasfilm because they stepped on territory that has been reserved for the…
-
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…
-
Even if you only want to write science fiction, you should also read mysteries, poetry, mainstream literature, history, biography, philosophy,…
See all 33 quotes by Walter Jon Williams »
More Choice Quotes
This quote is filed under Choice Quotes,
one of 5,054 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
-
Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for…
— Aristotle
-
Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason…
— Aristotle
-
Some choices we live not only once but a thousand times over, remembering them for the rest of our lives.
— Richard Bach
-
I think it's your own choice if you turn from an angry young man to a bitter, old bastard.
— Billie Joe Armstrong
-
Yeah, I know, some people are against drunk driving, and I call those people 'the cops.' But you know, sometimes,…
— Dave Attell
-
If social stability goes pear-shaped, you have a choice between anarchy and dictatorship. Most people will opt for more security,…
— Margaret Atwood
-
Today I choose life. Every morning when I wake up I can choose joy, happiness, negativity, pain... To feel the…
— Kevyn Aucoin
-
Choice of attention - to pay attention to this and ignore that - is to the inner life what choice…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
-
I'm an independent. I'm a centrist. A new generation is arriving that has grown up with a multiplicity of choice…
— John Avlon
-
Even now, we make no apologies for the choice we made. The sacrifices we made were selfless. The options we…
— Ibrahim Babangida
-
You are always free to change your mind and choose a different future, or a different past.
— Richard Bach
-
What I want to do is to make sure that we fully repeal Obamacare. This will be one of the…
— Michele Bachmann
See all 5,054 Choice Quotes »