We’re all nothing but unified arrangements of atoms and particles, drifting around.
ALAN DEAN FOSTERSo rewriting is hard for me. I mean, I already know the story and would rather read something new.
More Alan Dean Foster Quotes
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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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An apex is always surrounded only by emptiness
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Besides the mistakes that are pointed out, I love the way readers become involved with the characters.
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We’re not a particular species. Check out popular video games.
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I engage in too many activities already through the actions of my characters.
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I would hope that my characters have become deeper and more rounded personalities.
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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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I enjoy listening to classical music and heavy metal.
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The universe is full of dead people who lived by assumption.
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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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I try to challenge myself as much as possible, as often as possible.
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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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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.
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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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Where lies the line between sorcery and science? It is only a matter of terminology, my friend.
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Given all the changes, both economic and technological, SF hasn’t done too badly.
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Don’t try to write to the trend of the moment.
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Science-fiction allowed me to go places that were otherwise inaccessible, which is why I started reading it.
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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 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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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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I write early in the morning, usually after reading portions of at least half a dozen newspapers on the web.
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Getting inside the mind of a terrorist wasn’t difficult at all.
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I hear entire symphonies, oratorios, in my head, but I can’t write a note.
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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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