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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• Walter Jon Williams:

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

• Walter Jon Williams:

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

• Walter Jon Williams:

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

• Walter Kerr:

  Half the world is composed of idiots, the other half of people clever enough to take indecent advan

• Walter Kerr:

  It has an air about it of having strolled in from the street with a few tricks up its sleeve, and i

• Walter Kerr:

  Harpo Marx looks like a musical comedy.

• Walter Kerr:

  He had delusions of adequacy.

• Walter Kaufmann:

  The first function of a book review should be, I believe, to give some idea of the contents and cha

• Walter Kaufmann:

  The problem of suffering is: why is there the suffering we know?

• Walter Kaufmann:

  Thirdly, even if we assume that the world is governed by purpose, we need only add that this purpos