"How long it takes to write a book…" — Walter Jon Williams

"How long it takes to write a book depends on its length."

— Walter Jon Williams

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33 Quotes by Walter Jon Williams

Walter Jon Williams has 33 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

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…

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High thoughts must have high language. — Aristophanes
I was never really a comic-book fanatic. — J. J. Abrams
When it comes to the point where you occasionally look forward to being in prison on the basis that you… — Julian Assange
Films and television and even comic books are churning out vast quantities of fictional narratives, and the public continues to… — Paul Auster
I'm not a comic book guy at all. — Darren Aronofsky
I don't believe in personal immortality; the only way I expect to have some version of such a thing is… — Isaac Asimov
I'd never heard of the 'Lord of the Rings', actually. So I went to the bookstore and there it was,… — Sean Astin
The question is, are we happy to suppose that our grandchildren may never be able to see an elephant except… — David Attenborough
I have a big following among the biogeeks of this world. Nobody ever puts them in books. — Margaret Atwood
Once you publish a book, it is out of your control. You cannot dictate how people read it. — Margaret Atwood
Writers and books are cheap dates, especially when you compare the cost of a book with a ticket to the… — Margaret Atwood
Our generation in the west was lucky: we had readymade gateways. We had books, paper, teachers, schools and libraries. But… — Margaret Atwood

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