Living gives you a better understanding of life.
ALAN DEAN FOSTERDon’t try to write to the trend of the moment.
More Alan Dean Foster Quotes
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I hear entire symphonies, oratorios, in my head, but I can’t write a note.
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Don’t try to write to the trend of the moment.
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I engage in too many activities already through the actions of my characters.
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Given all the changes, both economic and technological, SF hasn’t done too badly.
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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’ve been writing full-time since 1978.
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The universe is full of dead people who lived by assumption.
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An apex is always surrounded only by emptiness
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Advances have fallen, generally, for everything except the biggest potential bestsellers.
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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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Some of it is carefully structured and well-thought-out. That’s where the real danger lies.
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Even as children, human beings fabricate elaborate revenge fantasies.
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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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So rewriting is hard for me. I mean, I already know the story and would rather read something new.
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Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting.
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