Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting.
ALAN DEAN FOSTERThere’s certainly more new SF available than when I started writing.
More Alan Dean Foster Quotes
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An apex is always surrounded only by emptiness
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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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Science-fiction allowed me to go places that were otherwise inaccessible, which is why I started reading it.
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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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Advances have fallen, generally, for everything except the biggest potential bestsellers.
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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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I see the Jedi mission as giving up a normal life in exchange for protecting the innocent.
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Last year I went to a worldcon for the first time in two decades. I may go again this year.
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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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In one book, CACHALOT, just for my own amusement, every character is based directly on someone I have known.
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Growing up, I never gave a thought to being a writer.
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I hear entire symphonies, oratorios, in my head, but I can’t write a note.
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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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I have a bad tendency to get rapidly bored with my own material.
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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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