"That's why editors and publishers will never be……" — Walter Jon Williams
"That's why editors and publishers will never be obsolete: a reader wants someone with taste and authority to point them in the direction of the good stuff, and to keep the awful stuff away from their door."
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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.
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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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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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To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would…
— Hannah Arendt
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The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be…
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Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority.
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A crown, if it hurts us, is not worth wearing.
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The American press has the blues. Too many authorities have assured it that its days are numbered, too many good…
— Russell Baker
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Does it follow that I reject all authority? Perish the thought. In the matter of boots, I defer to the…
— Mikhail Bakunin
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But I recognize no infallible authority, even in special questions; consequently, whatever respect I may have for the honesty and…
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I bow before the authority of special men because it is imposed upon me by my own reason.
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Because power corrupts, society's demands for moral authority and character increase as the importance of the position increases.
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I cannot stand authority.
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The natural liberty of man is to be free from any superior power on Earth, and not to be under…
— Samuel Adams
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No oppression is so heavy or lasting as that which is inflicted by the perversion and exorbitance of legal authority.
— Joseph Addison
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