There’s certainly more new SF available than when I started writing.
ALAN DEAN FOSTERThere’s certainly more new SF available than when I started writing.
ALAN DEAN FOSTERThe universe is full of dead people who lived by assumption.
ALAN DEAN FOSTERIn loquaciousness lay insanity.
ALAN DEAN FOSTERI play basketball and try to go diving at least once a year. I don’t really have hobbies in the traditional sense.
ALAN DEAN FOSTERI engage in too many activities already through the actions of my characters.
ALAN DEAN FOSTERWriting allows me the time to travel and see the world, which is what I always wanted to do.
ALAN DEAN FOSTERSpontaneity is one of the joys of existence, especially if you prepare for it in advance.
ALAN DEAN FOSTERAdvances have fallen, generally, for everything except the biggest potential bestsellers.
ALAN DEAN FOSTERI would hope that my characters have become deeper and more rounded personalities.
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.
ALAN DEAN FOSTERAll I ever wanted to be was a traveler and explorer.
ALAN DEAN FOSTERI usually do one con a year as a GoH and try to make the World Fantasy Convention for business purposes.
ALAN DEAN FOSTERGetting from page four to page five is more important than spending three weeks getting page four perfect.
ALAN DEAN FOSTERThat means there’s also more bad SF available. Whether there is also more good is a matter for future historians of the field.
ALAN DEAN FOSTERSome of it is carefully structured and well-thought-out. That’s where the real danger lies.
ALAN DEAN FOSTERThe thing all writers do best is find ways to avoid writing.
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