Besides the mistakes that are pointed out, I love the way readers become involved with the characters.
ALAN DEAN FOSTER
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.
More Alan Dean Foster Quotes
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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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An apex is always surrounded only by emptiness
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Last year I went to a worldcon for the first time in two decades. I may go again this year.
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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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Keep writing. Try to do a little bit every day, even if the result looks like crap.
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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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How much research I have to do depends on the nature of the story. For fantasy, none at all.
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We’re not a particular species. Check out popular video games.
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Don’t try to write to the trend of the moment.
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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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Growing up, I never gave a thought to being a writer.
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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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Advances have fallen, generally, for everything except the biggest potential bestsellers.
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