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.
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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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Getting inside the mind of a terrorist wasn’t difficult at all.
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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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We’re all nothing but unified arrangements of atoms and particles, drifting around.
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The universe is full of dead people who lived by assumption.
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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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The thing all writers do best is find ways to avoid writing.
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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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An apex is always surrounded only by emptiness
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Advances have fallen, generally, for everything except the biggest potential bestsellers.
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In loquaciousness lay insanity.
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Spontaneity is one of the joys of existence, especially if you prepare for it in advance.
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When readers start asking about character motivations instead of concentrating on the special effects, it means you’re connecting with them on a personal level.
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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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