I’ve been writing full-time since 1978.
ALAN DEAN FOSTERI enjoy listening to classical music and heavy metal.
More Alan Dean Foster Quotes
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Growing up, I never gave a thought to being a writer.
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I have a bad tendency to get rapidly bored with my own material.
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Living gives you a better understanding of life.
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Even as children, human beings fabricate elaborate revenge fantasies.
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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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Writing allows me the time to travel and see the world, which is what I always wanted to do.
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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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Keep writing. Try to do a little bit every day, even if the result looks like crap.
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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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Where lies the line between sorcery and science? It is only a matter of terminology, my friend.
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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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I engage in too many activities already through the actions of my characters.
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I hear entire symphonies, oratorios, in my head, but I can’t write a note.
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An apex is always surrounded only by emptiness
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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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