"Genre labels are useful only insofar as they……" — Walter Jon Williams
"Genre labels are useful only insofar as they help you find an audience."
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Walter Jon Williams
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33 Quotes by Walter Jon Williams
Walter Jon Williams has 33 quotes on this site.
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Being a writer was never a choice, it was an irresistible compulsion.
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An SF author who reads only SF will have little new to contribute, but someone with a broader experience will…
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Everything that you read is an influence on everything you write, and you want to draw as many elements into…
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Right up till the 1980s, SF envisioned giant mainframe computers that ran everything remotely, that ingested huge amounts of information…
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The Internet offers an interesting combination of advertising and community - by participating in the community you can become an…
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I can't speak for the other authors, but what I hoped to achieve was to illuminate certain corners of the…
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I want a platform that, like a book or a magazine, I can carry into the bath or leave at…
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I've learned that I get blocked when my subconscious mind is telling me that I've taken the work in a…
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Some of my ideas were shot down by Lucasfilm because they stepped on territory that has been reserved for the…
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When state and religion are one, religion becomes a means for the powerful to remain in power.
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Science fiction readers probably have the gene for novelty, and seem to enjoy a cascade of invention as much as…
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Even if you only want to write science fiction, you should also read mysteries, poetry, mainstream literature, history, biography, philosophy,…
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I want to do what I want when I want to do it not be dictated to by audiences.
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I believe in anything that will engage the audience and make the story more effective.
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I began to work the stage and get the audience into it. I also learned how to have fun out…
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Confronting a stadium audience, you can't see the whites of their eyes. It's just an amorphous mass of noise and,…
— Rowan Atkinson
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You see, the interesting thing about books, as opposed, say, to films, is that it's always just one person encountering…
— Paul Auster
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If you really want to help the American theater, don't be an actress, dahling. Be an audience.
— Tallulah Bankhead
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I don't feel like I need to preach to the world or nothing like that. I just feel like I…
— Erykah Badu
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I have the ability to sing with emotion and feeling, but if you say I sound like Billie Holiday, that's…
— Erykah Badu
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You're creating a different world and the actor's job is to be able to convince the audience to enter into…
— Christian Bale
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I am a real ham. I love an audience. I work better with an audience. I am dead, in fact,…
— Lucille Ball
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I always feel that art in general and acting in particular should make the audience a little uncomfortable, to slap…
— Antonio Banderas
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I'm trying to build a strong business. I want to create new stars, new shows and new products for my…
— Tyra Banks
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