Even as children, human beings fabricate elaborate revenge fantasies.
ALAN DEAN FOSTERSpontaneity is one of the joys of existence, especially if you prepare for it in advance.
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In loquaciousness lay insanity.
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Spontaneity is one of the joys of existence, especially if you prepare for it in advance.
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Getting inside the mind of a terrorist wasn’t difficult at all.
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The universe is full of dead people who lived by assumption.
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Some of it is carefully structured and well-thought-out. That’s where the real danger lies.
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The thing all writers do best is find ways to avoid writing.
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I play basketball and try to go diving at least once a year. I don’t really have hobbies in the traditional sense.
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I have a bad tendency to get rapidly bored with my own material.
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I enjoy listening to classical music and heavy metal.
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All I ever wanted to be was a traveler and explorer.
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How much research I have to do depends on the nature of the story. For fantasy, none at all.
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When readers start asking about character motivations instead of concentrating on the special effects, it means you’re connecting with them on a personal level.
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The overwhelming triumph of the international multimedia conglomerate has resulted in less diversity within the field and has made it much harder for newer writers not only to break in, but to make any kind of a living while doing so.
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Writing allows me the time to travel and see the world, which is what I always wanted to do.
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I’d really like to have been Sir Richard Francis Burton, but it’s the wrong century.
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