Tad Williams Quotations

Unless technology itself is drastically repressed, the idea of the dystopian monoculture like Orwell's 1984 gets harder to believe. But the danger of a solipsistic society will grow, of a disconnected society of mirror-watchers and navel-gazers.

One of the fascinating things about researching Heaven and Hell is, of course, the fact that there are so few descriptions of Heaven, because most people can't really explain what it would be like beyond a couple of sentences, whereas Hell is quite often personal.

My parents were perfectly open-minded about everything. They never tried to convince us of what was true or what wasn't true in their minds. We were just presented with the information that was around and pretty much allowed - though, I mean, we knew how they felt. We knew they didn't go to church. So obviously that had an effect.

If you're writing fantasy or science fiction, it's really hard to do if you don't know a lot, at least in a basic way, about how the real world works.

People may get tired of hearing from me, but I don't think I'll ever run out of things that I want to write about.

I've always been partial to werewolves, perhaps because there's a desperation to their plight that resonates.

For me, any book I'm writing is also a chance to get in and research and read and learn things that I maybe only knew a little bit about before.

Weak dogs become bones for other, stronger dogs.

Honor is the only really good disguise for an occasional act of dishonor.

Humans turn the places they live into great crowded piles of mud and stone, like the nests termites build--but what happens when in all the world there are termite hills left but no bush?