"Even if you only want to write science fiction, you should also read mysteries, poetry, mainstream literature, history, biography, philosophy, and science."
― Walter Jon Williams
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Poetry
More From Walter Jon Williams
- "I’m in favor of any technology that makes my work available to the reading public at a reasonable price."
- "When state and religion are one, religion becomes a means for the powerful to remain in power."
- "It’s hard to generalize, because they’re all different. When I started, I decided to take as much advantage as I could of the freedom offered by the SF field."
More In Poetry
- "So it is in poetry. All we ask is that the mood recorded shall impress us as having been of the kind that exhausts the imaginative capacity; if it fails to do this the failure will announce itself either in prose or in insignificant verse."― John Drinkwater
- "I think poetry is best read to oneself."― Rickie Lee Jones
- "For poetry there exists neither large countries nor small. Its domain is in the heart of all men."― Giorgos Seferis