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.
ALAN DEAN FOSTERScience-fiction allowed me to go places that were otherwise inaccessible, which is why I started reading it.
More Alan Dean Foster Quotes
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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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How much research I have to do depends on the nature of the story. For fantasy, none at all.
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I engage in too many activities already through the actions of my characters.
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There’s certainly more new SF available than when I started writing.
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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 would hope that my characters have become deeper and more rounded personalities.
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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 universe is full of dead people who lived by assumption.
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Advances have fallen, generally, for everything except the biggest potential bestsellers.
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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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Some of it is carefully structured and well-thought-out. That’s where the real danger lies.
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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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Besides the mistakes that are pointed out, I love the way readers become involved with the characters.
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Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting.
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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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