It is always hard when reality intrudes on belief.
ALAN DEAN FOSTERIf 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.
More Alan Dean Foster Quotes
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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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We’re all nothing but unified arrangements of atoms and particles, drifting around.
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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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Growing up, I never gave a thought to being a writer.
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Getting inside the mind of a terrorist wasn’t difficult at all.
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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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All I ever wanted to be was a traveler and explorer.
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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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The thing all writers do best is find ways to avoid writing.
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I enjoy listening to classical music and heavy metal.
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Don’t try to write to the trend of the moment.
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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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The overwhelming triumph of the international multimedia conglomerate has resulted in less diversity within the field and has made it much harder for newer writers not only to break in, but to make any kind of a living while doing so.
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I’ve been writing full-time since 1978.
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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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