"For every SF reader of that period, Robert……" — Walter Jon Williams
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33 Quotes by Walter Jon Williams
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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…
- 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…