Walter Jon Williams Quotes

'Some day,' I said, 'I will be an author.'

My dream was, and always had been, to write a book. To be a writer.

I just want to sit in my room and write books.

I was reading a lot of books I admired, and thought that I would like to write something like that someday.

To be a novelist, all I need is a pen and a piece of paper.

I had thought of writing, actually, and that later on I'd be a novelist.

I'm a novelist, that's how I make my livelihood, and I concentrate on the novels.

I've always been a reader and a writer.

I always knew I was going to grow up to be a storyteller; that's one of the earliest things I remember about myself. There was never a question of me not writing.

I wrote a novel, so now they can call me a novelist. I tell stories; that's it.

My hope is that I can continue writing and, in the future, I can just be Maya Soetoro-Ng.

What I'd like to be above all is a writer.

One thing I really want to explore is writing.

Readers would email me and say, 'Please write a novel about so-and-so,' but it has to come from yourself and not so much from your readership.

I feel I've got 10 books in me.

I've never actually even contemplated writing a book or having a book.

You have to have heart's passion to write a novel.

I don't actually have a one wellspring of inspiration. Though I'm most often inspired while reading - both fiction and nonfiction.

If I were to have a dream job, it would probably be a poet. Then again, I don't think I'm a very good poet!

When I was about eight, I realised the person whose name was on the book got money for it, and it seemed almost too good to be true that you could get paid for making things up.

I wanted to become a writer. I enjoyed reading as a child.

One thing I always did in my career was writing. I always was writing. I was trying to create things. For myself, for other people.

I will try to write books until I drop dead.

I was a huge rereader, so I've read all the Chronicles of Narnia, at minimum, 13 times each. In reading that series, I realized that someone had written those books, and that was that person's job. And I thought, 'That is the job for me. That is the job I'm going to have when I grow up.'

It's wonderful being an author and having so many kids enjoying my books. That's always been my dream job, and I feel very lucky to be able to do it.