Will Walker

Will Walker
William Walker may refer to:...
past long
But the past is long, and the future is short.
regret speed know-how
Who knows how fast a second-guess can travel? Who has ever measured the exact speed of regret?
creepy abundance turns
Even beauty, in abundance, turns creepy.
stories sometimes saddest
Sometimes the saddest stories take the fewest words.
editors reader
An editor is like a professional reader, and as I became a better reader, I also became a better writer.
motivation inspiration knowing
Fear is ... a kind of unintentional storytelling that we are all born knowing how to do.
fear play imagination
Our fears are an amazing gift of the imagination ... a way of glimpsing what might be the future when there's still time to influence how that future will play out.
scary-stories newspapers ifs
If I read a scary story in the newspaper, I find I'm haunted by it.
book writing appreciate
I just hope that readers and publishers continue to appreciate good writing and good storytelling in all their various forms. And I hope that people continue to read books, even though we have so many other options for entertainment.
way degrees persevere
To some degree we all live with uncertainty. We have no control over the future. Yet we carry on, we persevere, because, I guess, it's the way we're made.
love-is joy feelings
Some say that love is the sweetest feeling, the purest form of joy, but that isn't right. It's not love--it's relief.
trying president fiction
I love conventional apocalypse movies. In movies, I like to be with the president, or the scientist trying to solve the problem, but that's not the kind of fiction that I like to read.
stories imagine reader
My sentences got sharper and my stories more efficient, and I gradually learned to imagine the reader more clearly and to empathize with that imagined reader, which is a crucial part of learning to tell stories.
reading sunday years
I tend to mostly take the day off from working on Sundays, but I do spend some time reading. Mostly what I'm picking up is what's in stores. I really do love to read fiction from the last year or two.