I hear entire symphonies, oratorios, in my head, but I can’t write a note.
ALAN DEAN FOSTERThe overwhelming triumph of the international multimedia conglomerate has resulted in less diversity within the field and has made it much harder for newer writers not only to break in, but to make any kind of a living while doing so.
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So rewriting is hard for me. I mean, I already know the story and would rather read something new.
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It is always hard when reality intrudes on belief.
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I have a bad tendency to get rapidly bored with my own material.
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The overwhelming triumph of the international multimedia conglomerate has resulted in less diversity within the field and has made it much harder for newer writers not only to break in, but to make any kind of a living while doing so.
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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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The thing all writers do best is find ways to avoid writing.
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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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Wider travels have given me considerably greater insight into how cultural differences affect not only people, but politics and art.
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The universe is full of dead people who lived by assumption.
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In loquaciousness lay insanity.
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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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Given all the changes, both economic and technological, SF hasn’t done too badly.
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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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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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We’re all nothing but unified arrangements of atoms and particles, drifting around.
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