Walter J. Williams Quotes
34 Walter J. Williams quotes:
"Genre labels are useful only insofar as they help you find an audience."
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"Being a writer was never a choice, it was an irresistible compulsion."
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"If you can find collaborators whose strengths compliment your own, the result can be more than the sum of its authors."
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"I don't know why they were so intent on drawing autobiographical work from students who were so young they really didn't have an autobiography."
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"I found college useful for a lot of other reasons. It exposed me to a great many influences I wouldn't otherwise have encountered, and gave me a lot of time with some very intelligent people whose thoughts are still with me."
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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 wrong direction, and that once I start listening to what my subconscious is trying to tell me, I can work out the problem and get moving again."
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"The Internet offers an interesting combination of advertising and community by participating in the community you can become an advertisement for yourself."
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"The Rift, which was well over a thousand pages of manuscript, took two years."
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"I now have to find a reason to write, every single day."
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"I was pretty much grown-up by the time I attended school in Britain - or as grown-up as I'll ever get."
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"An SF author who reads only SF will have little new to contribute, but someone with a broader experience will bring more to the table."
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"For every SF reader of that period, Robert A. Heinlein was also a touchstone."
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"How long it takes to write a book depends on its length."
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"It's hard to generalize, because they're all different. When I started, I decided to take as much advantage as I could of the freedom offered by the SF field."
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"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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"The decisions about which technologies to include were strictly pragmatic. I got rid of anything that would get in the way of the drama."
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"Working within the limitations of the shared world generally made the writing easier, because I didn't have to invent any of the characters or background, which is usually the hardest part."
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"I'm in favor of any technology that makes my work available to the reading public at a reasonable price."
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"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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"Even if you only want to write science fiction, you should also read mysteries, poetry, mainstream literature, history, biography, philosophy, and science."
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