Keep writing. Try to do a little bit every day, even if the result looks like crap.
ALAN DEAN FOSTERI would hope that my characters have become deeper and more rounded personalities.
More Alan Dean Foster Quotes
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Don’t try to write to the trend of the moment.
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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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How much research I have to do depends on the nature of the story. For fantasy, none at all.
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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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So rewriting is hard for me. I mean, I already know the story and would rather read something new.
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I usually do one con a year as a GoH and try to make the World Fantasy Convention for business purposes.
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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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It’s a life of sacrifice. There are rewards, but also a certain degree of sterility.
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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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I write early in the morning, usually after reading portions of at least half a dozen newspapers on the web.
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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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An apex is always surrounded only by emptiness
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There is nothing in art, in philosophy, or in politics to match the fervor of mutual cooperation among discordant bands of fanatics.
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In loquaciousness lay insanity.
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Even as children, human beings fabricate elaborate revenge fantasies.
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