The storm hit with all the fury of a woman who’d been dieting for six months, only to discover she’d gained four pounds.
ALAN DEAN FOSTERWider travels have given me considerably greater insight into how cultural differences affect not only people, but politics and art.
More Alan Dean Foster Quotes
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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.
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I’ve been writing full-time since 1978.
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In loquaciousness lay insanity.
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An apex is always surrounded only by emptiness
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The thing all writers do best is find ways to avoid writing.
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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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In one book, CACHALOT, just for my own amusement, every character is based directly on someone I have known.
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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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There’s certainly more new SF available than when I started writing.
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I would hope that my characters have become deeper and more rounded personalities.
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It is always hard when reality intrudes on belief.
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Advances have fallen, generally, for everything except the biggest potential bestsellers.
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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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Don’t try to write to the trend of the moment.
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Spontaneity is one of the joys of existence, especially if you prepare for it in advance.
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