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Walter Jon Williams

Walter Jon Williams (born 1953) is an American writer, primarily of science fiction. Previously he wrote nautical adventure fiction under the name Jon Williams, a series of historical novels set during the age of sail, Privateers and Gentlemen (1981–1984).

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

Choice, Choices, Compulsion, Irresistible, Writing

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

Advertisement, Advertising, Combination, Community, Interesting

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

Rift, Thousand, Two, Years

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

Motivate, Previously

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

Britain, Pretty, School, Time

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.

Bring, Experience, Littles, Reads, Table, Tables

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.

Amounts, Character, Law, Regurgitated, Ways, Years

How long it takes to write a book depends on its length.

Book, Long, Takes, Write, Writing

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

Block, Days, Experienced, Writer'S Block

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.

College, Found, Influences, Intelligent, People

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.

Down, Ideas, Movie, Problem, Shot, Territory

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

College, Courses, Though, Writing

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.

Fiction, Invention, Novelty, Probably, Providing, Science

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.

Achieve, Afterlife, Illuminate, Lucas, Speak

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.

Draw, Elements, Everything, Work, Writing

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

Genre, Help, Helping, Insofar, Labels, Useful

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

Favor, Favors, Reading, Technology, Work

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

Collaborators, Compliment, Result, Results, Sum, Writing

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

Atheism, Becomes, Mean, Power, Powerful, State

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.

Authority, Door, Doors, Editors, Good, Want

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