Walter Jon Williams Quotes

• No tengo miedo de los hombres lobo o vampiros u hoteles encantados, tengo miedo de lo que los seres humanos reales para hacer otros seres humanos reales.

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  Real, Ghouls, Vampire

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• He aprendido que me bloqueo cuando mi subconsciente me dice que he emprendido el trabajo en una dirección equivocada, y que una vez que empiezo a escuchar lo que mi subconsciente intenta decirme, puedo solucionar el problema y volver a ponerme en marcha.

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  Moving, Taken, Writing

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

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  Reading, Technology, Favors

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• Right up till the 1980s, SF envisioned giant mainframe computers that ran everything remotely, that ingested huge amounts of information and regurgitated it in startling ways, and that behaved (or were programmed to behave) very much like human beings... Now we have 14-year-olds with more computing power on their desktops than existed in the entire world in 1960. But computers in fiction are still behaving in much the same way as they did in the Sixties. That's because in fiction [artificial intelligence] has to follow the laws of dramatic logic, just like human characters.

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  Character, Years, Law

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

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  Writing, Compliment, Results

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• Everything that you read is an influence on everything you write, and you want to draw as many elements into your work as you can.

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  Work, Writing, Elements

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

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  Editors, Trying, Agents

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• 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.

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  Intelligent, College, People

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

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  Writing, Choices, Compulsion

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

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  Philosophy, Writing, Science

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• 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.

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  Science, Fiction, Novelty

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

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  Powerful, Mean, Atheism

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• Las etiquetas de género sólo son útiles en la medida en que ayudan a encontrar un público.

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  Labels, Helping, Genre

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• 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.

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  Afterlife, Speak, Achieve

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

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  Interesting, Community, Advertising

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

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  School, Britain

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

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  Writing, College, Courses

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

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  Block, Writer's Block

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• 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.

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  Movie, Ideas, Territory

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

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  Mass, Expensive

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

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  Years, Two, Rift

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• I now have to find a reason to write, every single day.

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  Writing, Reason

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• 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.

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  Writing, Character, World

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• 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.

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  Doors, Editors, Want

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

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  Jobs, Stories, Tough

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