I enjoy listening to classical music and heavy metal.
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 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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Even as children, human beings fabricate elaborate revenge fantasies.
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In loquaciousness lay insanity.
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Don’t try to write to the trend of the moment.
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Given all the changes, both economic and technological, SF hasn’t done too badly.
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I write early in the morning, usually after reading portions of at least half a dozen newspapers on the web.
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Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting.
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There’s certainly more new SF available than when I started writing.
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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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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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Keep writing. Try to do a little bit every day, even if the result looks like crap.
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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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I hear entire symphonies, oratorios, in my head, but I can’t write a note.
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We’re all nothing but unified arrangements of atoms and particles, drifting around.
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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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