"Science fiction readers probably have the gene for……" — Walter Jon Williams
"Science fiction readers probably have the gene for novelty, and seem to enjoy a cascade of invention as much as a writer enjoys providing one."
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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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Genre labels are useful only insofar as they help you find an audience.
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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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Even if you only want to write science fiction, you should also read mysteries, poetry, mainstream literature, history, biography, philosophy,…
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In order to make a perfect and beautiful machine, it is not requisite to know how to make it. All…
— Daniel Dennett
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One by one, these governments came undone, and were forced into IMF tutelage (and national illegitimacy) by the careening oil…
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It's gotten to the point where if I throw a cookie in the garbage, I have to douse it in…
— Hoda Kotb
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I expect to retire to a fine-grained heaven where the temperatures are always consistent, where the images slide before one's…
— Ansel Adams
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The TARP program was nevertheless necessary to keep banks from collapsing in a cascade of failures.
— Mitt Romney
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I raised my right hand and placed my left on the Quran, which was being held by my wife and…
— Keith Ellison
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Sit back picture yourself swooping up a shell of purple with foam crests of crystal drops soft nigh they fall…
— Robert Hunter
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I've experienced first-hand the wonderful work organizations like J Bar J do for young people in Central Oregon and I…
— Greg Walden
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When all is complete deep in the teapot, when tea, mint, and sugar have completely diffused throughout the water, coloring…
— Unknown Author
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Once the cells in a biological machine stop working, it can never be started again. It goes into a cascade…
— Richard Preston
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Holi, the spring carnival, when members of all castes mingle and let down their hair, sprinkling one another with cascades…
— Wendy Doniger
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When girls are educated, you get effects that cascade throughout society.
— Queen Rania of Jordan
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