Wider travels have given me considerably greater insight into how cultural differences affect not only people, but politics and art.
ALAN DEAN FOSTERLast year I went to a worldcon for the first time in two decades. I may go again this year.
More Alan Dean Foster Quotes
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It is always hard when reality intrudes on belief.
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All I ever wanted to be was a traveler and explorer.
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In loquaciousness lay insanity.
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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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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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Last year I went to a worldcon for the first time in two decades. I may go again this year.
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Don’t try to write to the trend of the moment.
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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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Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting.
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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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We’re all nothing but unified arrangements of atoms and particles, drifting around.
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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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The thing all writers do best is find ways to avoid writing.
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An apex is always surrounded only by emptiness
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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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