I hear entire symphonies, oratorios, in my head, but I can’t write a note.
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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There’s certainly more new SF available than when I started writing.
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Writing allows me the time to travel and see the world, which is what I always wanted to do.
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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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The universe is full of dead people who lived by assumption.
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We’re all nothing but unified arrangements of atoms and particles, drifting around.
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Dawn was written well before 9/11. People speak a lot today about the banality of evil, but not all evil is banal.
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Getting from page four to page five is more important than spending three weeks getting page four perfect.
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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 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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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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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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Some of it is carefully structured and well-thought-out. That’s where the real danger lies.
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An apex is always surrounded only by emptiness
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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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All I ever wanted to be was a traveler and explorer.
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