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.
ALAN DEAN FOSTERGetting from page four to page five is more important than spending three weeks getting page four perfect.
More Alan Dean Foster Quotes
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Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting.
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All I ever wanted to be was a traveler and explorer.
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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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There’s certainly more new SF available than when I started writing.
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Where lies the line between sorcery and science? It is only a matter of terminology, my friend.
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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’d really like to have been Sir Richard Francis Burton, but it’s the wrong century.
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I engage in too many activities already through the actions of my characters.
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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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How much research I have to do depends on the nature of the story. For fantasy, none at all.
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So rewriting is hard for me. I mean, I already know the story and would rather read something new.
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If you’re crazy, there’s two things you can do to make yourself feel better: One is to get yourself cured. The other is to make everyone you have to deal with crazy.
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The universe is full of dead people who lived by assumption.
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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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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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