Will Shetterly Quotes

#1. There've always been people in the borderland between childhood and adulthood. That state is not a matter of chronological age. It's a matter of understanding that you can accept a future that has been defined by the previous generation, or you can reject it and make something new.

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#2. In fantasy, impossible things exist. In science fiction, impossible things exist and can be understood by humans. In supernatural horror, impossible things exist and cannot live in peace with humans.

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#3. Politics is a dirty business, but if you do not do politics, politics will be done to you.

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#4. It is better to write a bad first draft than to write no first draft at all.

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#5. The great thing about revision is that it's your opportunity to fake being brilliant.

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#6. There are no rules in writing. There are useful principles. Throw them away when they're not useful. But always know what you're throwing away.

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#7. Country music, the music of the white rural working class, has often been mocked by elitists whose understanding of power and art was shaped at expensive private schools.

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#8. Many elitists hate rap as much as they hate country, though they don't like to admit it for fear of appearing racially insensitive.

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#9. Is art influential? It can be - 'Uncle Tom's Cabin' rallied abolitionists, and 'The Jungle' provoked the demand for a safer food industry.

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#10. Moving around is good for creativity: the next line of dialogue that you desperately need may well be waiting in the back of the refrigerator or half a mile along your favorite walk.

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#11. It's always good to hear that people you like are happy.

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#12. Unless you're writing for a humorous effect, elves or space aliens and all creatures who aren't human should at least be as strange as, oh, the French.

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