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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When we say that the persistence of competition is ensured by fate, we mean that individual freedom is so guaranteed. The one thing to which fate binds us is liberty.
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Snowboarding! I love it! Some of the best places to snowboard are Telluride and Park Cities, Utah.
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You have to be delusional to get into this business, you know?
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To go to the Oscars for Moneyball - that was pretty amazing. And to be able to go work with Kathryn Bigelow - that's going to be pretty sweet. Hopefully I don't have to go back to being a waiter. That's still my main goal.
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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.
