Walter Jon Williams Quotes
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.
Quotes to Explore
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I wanted to be an author for as long as I can remember.
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I get tired of comedies where there are a bunch of funny guys and a beautiful woman who doesn't do anything funny. And I don't like books where there's a rough-and-tumble boy and a really clever, snotty girl. That's just not my experience with teenagers.
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Wisdom and penetration are the fruit of experience, not the lessons of retirement and leisure. Great necessities call out great virtues.
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I think because Sport Lux has come in and leisure wear is a new thing, girls can sneak in hoodies and leggings and so on where they wouldn't normally - it has been proper legitimate fashion.
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Myth is an attempt to narrate a whole human experience, of which the purpose is too deep, going too deep in the blood and soul, for mental explanation or description.
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New York grabbed me too hard, as did adulthood.
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The market is so competitive. There are so many products that are similar. So we are forced to invest in innovative research in new products that are one or two years ahead of the market.
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I believe life is an 'experience ball.' You throw it at someone, it picks up their response... it grows. You play with that ball, learning what it teaches you.
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Today, fear of bloodshed is forcing us into recognizing new taboos: those of Muslims.
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For me, there is no such thing as a negative experience.
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If your faith is opposed to experience, to human learning and investigation, it is not worth the breath used in giving it expression.
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I am an author, and like many in my profession, I am also a traveling salesman, going all over in an attempt to persuade people to spend twenty-five dollars on a hardcover book by me.
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Great art - or good art - is when you look at it, experience it and it stays in your mind. I don't think conceptual art and traditional art are all that different.
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I started as a model in Holland and Chanel took me to New York when I was 19, after which I decided to stay.
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It has become cheaper to look for oil on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange than in the ground.
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It wasn't such a pleasant experience. We went through 14 hours with contractions every two minutes, no epidural, no nothing. Every two minutes, I would pass out. I went to the hospital on Saturday, and Levi was born on Monday.
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The best advice I got as a writer was also the first advice, which came from the late fantasy author and editor Karl Edward Wagner: Any agent who charges to look at your work is a crook.
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I have this whole new audience now.
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I'm so convinced that hiking helps my writing that I recently decided to offer a series of hiking-writing workshops to see if others had the same experience.
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All my adult life, if I didn't have several hours a day to sit in a room by myself, I would get antsy and irritable.
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We believe that the Statue of Liberty is an important symbol of freedom for our country. And as film director Martin Scorcese, who is involved in the Statue’s latest fundraising campaign, said, what is most impressive is not just what the Statue of Liberty represents for Americans but really what it represents to the whole world.
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I am a patriot: I want to help my country and help it grow.
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I definitely associate songs with the places that I've been.
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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.
