I hear entire symphonies, oratorios, in my head, but I can’t write a note.
ALAN DEAN FOSTERFreedom is just Chaos, with better lighting.
More Alan Dean Foster Quotes
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The universe is full of dead people who lived by assumption.
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Spontaneity is one of the joys of existence, especially if you prepare for it in advance.
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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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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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It is always hard when reality intrudes on belief.
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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 see the Jedi mission as giving up a normal life in exchange for protecting the innocent.
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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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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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I try to challenge myself as much as possible, as often as possible.
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In loquaciousness lay insanity.
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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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Advances have fallen, generally, for everything except the biggest potential bestsellers.
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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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Keep writing. Try to do a little bit every day, even if the result looks like crap.
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