Getting from page four to page five is more important than spending three weeks getting page four perfect.
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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Besides the mistakes that are pointed out, I love the way readers become involved with the characters.
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When readers start asking about character motivations instead of concentrating on the special effects, it means you’re connecting with them on a personal level.
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There’s certainly more new SF available than when I started writing.
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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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Spontaneity is one of the joys of existence, especially if you prepare for it in advance.
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In loquaciousness lay insanity.
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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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All I ever wanted to be was a traveler and explorer.
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The universe is full of dead people who lived by assumption.
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Don’t try to write to the trend of the moment.
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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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It’s a life of sacrifice. There are rewards, but also a certain degree of sterility.
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An apex is always surrounded only by emptiness
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I would hope that my characters have become deeper and more rounded personalities.
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I engage in too many activities already through the actions of my characters.
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