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I’d really like to have been Sir Richard Francis Burton, but it’s the wrong century.

Alan Dean Foster

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Don’t try to write to the trend of the moment.
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Moment Trend Try Write
In loquaciousness lay insanity.
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Insanity Lay
The universe is full of dead people who lived by assumption.
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Assumption Dead Full Live People Universe
We’re all nothing but unified arrangements of atoms and particles, drifting around.
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Around Arrangement Atom Drift Enjoy Nothing Particle Unfile
Writing allows me the time to travel and see the world, which is what I always wanted to do.
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Allow Always Time Travel Want World Write
Enjoying consciousness every now and then for a second or so before splitting up to become bits and pieces of trees and stars and french fries.
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Before Consciousness Enjoy French-fries Piece Second Split Star Tree
How much research I have to do depends on the nature of the story. For fantasy, none at all.
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All Depend Fantasy Nature None Research Story
I usually do one con a year as a GoH and try to make the World Fantasy Convention for business purposes.
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Business Convention Fantasy Make Purpose Usually World Year
Last year I went to a worldcon for the first time in two decades. I may go again this year.
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Decade Last Went Worldcon Year
An apex is always surrounded only by emptiness
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Apex Emptiness Surround
Getting from page four to page five is more important than spending three weeks getting page four perfect.
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Four Get Important More Page Perfect Spend Week
Spontaneity is one of the joys of existence, especially if you prepare for it in advance.
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Advance Especial Existence Joy One Prepare Spontaneous
Science-fiction allowed me to go places that were otherwise inaccessible, which is why I started reading it.
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Already Inaccessible Otherwise Read Start
I have a bad tendency to get rapidly bored with my own material.
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Bad Bore Material Own Rapidly Tendency
That means there’s also more bad SF available. Whether there is also more good is a matter for future historians of the field.
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Available Bad Future Historian Hoof Matte More
All I ever wanted to be was a traveler and explorer.
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All Explorer Traveler Want

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