Advances have fallen, generally, for everything except the biggest potential bestsellers.
ALAN DEAN FOSTERThere’s certainly more new SF available than when I started writing.
More Alan Dean Foster Quotes
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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 have a bad tendency to get rapidly bored with my own material.
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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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There’s certainly more new SF available than when I started writing.
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I’ve been writing full-time since 1978.
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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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There is nothing in art, in philosophy, or in politics to match the fervor of mutual cooperation among discordant bands of fanatics.
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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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I engage in too many activities already through the actions of my characters.
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The storm hit with all the fury of a woman who’d been dieting for six months, only to discover she’d gained four pounds.
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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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I would hope that my characters have become deeper and more rounded personalities.
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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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I see the Jedi mission as giving up a normal life in exchange for protecting the innocent.
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We’re all nothing but unified arrangements of atoms and particles, drifting around.
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