"The Rift, which was well over a thousand……" — Walter Jon Williams
"The Rift, which was well over a thousand pages of manuscript, took two years."
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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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Science fiction readers probably have the gene for novelty, and seem to enjoy a cascade of invention as much as…
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More Manuscript Quotes
This quote is filed under Manuscript Quotes,
one of 106 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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The manuscript looks chaotic, even by mathematics standards.
— George Andrews
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Whenever you feel an impulse to perpetrate a piece of exceptionally fine writing, obey it - whole-heartedly - and delete…
— Arthur Quiller-Couch
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Learn punctuation; it is your little drum set, one of the few tools oyu have to signal the reader where…
— Annie Dillard
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You need a good editor because every writer thinks he can write a War and Peace, but by the time…
— Samuel Johnson
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The most important lesson in the writing trade is that any manuscript is improved if you cut away the fat.
— Robert A. Heinlein
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If a publisher declines your manuscript, remember it is merely the decision of one fallible human being, and try another.
— Unknown Author
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Thus there are two books from whence I collect my Divinity; besides that written one of God, another of his…
— Thomas Browne
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I told that girl, in the kindest, gentlest way, that I could not consent to deliver judgment upon any one's…
— Mark Twain
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If you invent two or three people and turn them loose in your manuscript, something is bound to happen to…
— Mark Twain
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I pulled out the manuscript [from the envelope] and a great big stiff cardboard finger sprung up. This is someone…
— Gardner Dozois
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I write very raw, ugly, illiterate first drafts very quickly (novels are always in first draft in under a year)…
— Porochista Khakpour
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To visit Morocco is still like turning the pages of some illuminated Persian manuscript all embroidered with bright shapes and…
— Edith Wharton
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