We’re all nothing but unified arrangements of atoms and particles, drifting around.
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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I hear entire symphonies, oratorios, in my head, but I can’t write a note.
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Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting.
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It’s a life of sacrifice. There are rewards, but also a certain degree of sterility.
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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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I try to challenge myself as much as possible, as often as possible.
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Given all the changes, both economic and technological, SF hasn’t done too badly.
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I engage in too many activities already through the actions of my characters.
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I’ve been writing full-time since 1978.
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All I ever wanted to be was a traveler and explorer.
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Wider travels have given me considerably greater insight into how cultural differences affect not only people, but politics and art.
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I enjoy listening to classical music and heavy metal.
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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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Science-fiction allowed me to go places that were otherwise inaccessible, which is why I started reading it.
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An apex is always surrounded only by emptiness
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