Walter Jon Williams Quotes

• 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.

  Walter Jon Williams

• When state and religion are one, religion becomes a means for the powerful to remain in power.

  Walter Jon Williams

• Try to meet as many authors, agents, and editors as you can.

  Walter Jon Williams

• The Rift, which was well over a thousand pages of manuscript, took two years.

  Walter Jon Williams

• The mass-market paperback, for one, is too expensive.

  Walter Jon Williams

• The Internet offers an interesting combination of advertising and community by participating in the community you can become an advertisement for yourself.

  Walter Jon Williams

• The big battle at the end of DW isn’t drawn from history, but it’s influenced by history, certainly.

  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.

  Walter Jon Williams

• Some of my ideas were shot down by Lucasfilm because they stepped on territory that has been reserved for the movies. I didn’t have a problem with that.

  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.

  Walter Jon Williams

• Now I have to motivate myself much more than I had previously.

  Walter Jon Williams

• 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.

  Walter Jon Williams

• It’s a tough job to tell a story when the audience already knows the ending, and the ending is bleak.

  Walter Jon Williams

• If you can find collaborators whose strengths compliment your own, the result can be more than the sum of its authors.

  Walter Jon Williams

• 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.

  Walter Jon Williams

• I’ve experienced writer’s block, but never for more than a few days.

  Walter Jon Williams

• 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.

  Walter Jon Williams

• I’m in favor of any technology that makes my work available to the reading public at a reasonable price.

  Walter Jon Williams

• I went to college, though I didn’t take many writing courses.

  Walter Jon Williams

• I was pretty much grown-up by the time I attended school in Britain – or as grown-up as I’ll ever get.

  Walter Jon Williams

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Birth:	15th October, 1953
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Writer

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