64 Quotes by Walter Jon Williams

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

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.

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.

Genre labels are useful only insofar as they help you find an audience.

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

Even if you only want to write science fiction, you should also read mysteries, poetry, mainstream literature, history, biography, philosophy, and science.

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

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

Being a writer was never a choice, it was an irresistible compulsion.