I would hope that my characters have become deeper and more rounded personalities.
ALAN DEAN FOSTERI have a bad tendency to get rapidly bored with my own material.
More Alan Dean Foster Quotes
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Even as children, human beings fabricate elaborate revenge fantasies.
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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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I’ve been writing full-time since 1978.
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Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting.
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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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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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Writing allows me the time to travel and see the world, which is what I always wanted to do.
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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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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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Wider travels have given me considerably greater insight into how cultural differences affect not only people, but politics and art.
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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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Last year I went to a worldcon for the first time in two decades. I may go again this year.
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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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Living gives you a better understanding of life.
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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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