Words matter. These are the best Walter Jon Williams Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
I was pretty much grown-up by the time I attended school in Britain – or as grown-up as I’ll ever get.
The mass-market paperback, for one, is too expensive.
Being a writer was never a choice, it was an irresistible compulsion.
I’m not afraid of werewolves or vampires or haunted hotels, I’m afraid of what real human beings to do other real human beings.
If you can find collaborators whose strengths compliment your own, the result can be more than the sum of its authors.
How long it takes to write a book depends on its length.
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.
The Rift, which was well over a thousand pages of manuscript, took two years.
I wanted to be an author for as long as I can remember.
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.
Try to meet as many authors, agents, and editors as you can.
Even if you only want to write science fiction, you should also read mysteries, poetry, mainstream literature, history, biography, philosophy, and science.
I went to college, though I didn’t take many writing courses.
I can’t speak for the other authors, but what I hoped to achieve was to illuminate certain corners of the Lucas universe that hadn’t yet been explored.
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.
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.
When state and religion are one, religion becomes a means for the powerful to remain in power.
I’ve experienced writer’s block, but never for more than a few days.
For every SF reader of that period, Robert A. Heinlein was also a touchstone.
I want a platform that, like a book or a magazine, I can carry into the bath or leave at the beach.
I’m in favor of any technology that makes my work available to the reading public at a reasonable price.
It’s a tough job to tell a story when the audience already knows the ending, and the ending is bleak.
The Internet offers an interesting combination of advertising and community by participating in the community you can become an advertisement for yourself.
I now have to find a reason to write, every single day.
Genre labels are useful only insofar as they help you find an audience.
