The thing all writers do best is find ways to avoid writing.
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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Living gives you a better understanding of life.
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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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Don’t try to write to the trend of the moment.
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An apex is always surrounded only by emptiness
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Even as children, human beings fabricate elaborate revenge fantasies.
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The universe is full of dead people who lived by assumption.
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Spontaneity is one of the joys of existence, especially if you prepare for it in advance.
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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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We’re not a particular species. Check out popular video games.
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I engage in too many activities already through the actions of my characters.
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Growing up, I never gave a thought to being a writer.
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Enjoying consciousness every now and then for a second or so before splitting up to become bits and pieces of trees and stars and french fries.
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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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Getting from page four to page five is more important than spending three weeks getting page four perfect.
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We’re all nothing but unified arrangements of atoms and particles, drifting around.
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