Living gives you a better understanding of life.
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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Keep writing. Try to do a little bit every day, even if the result looks like crap.
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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 write early in the morning, usually after reading portions of at least half a dozen newspapers on the web.
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Getting from page four to page five is more important than spending three weeks getting page four perfect.
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There’s certainly more new SF available than when I started writing.
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I hear entire symphonies, oratorios, in my head, but I can’t write a note.
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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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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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Spontaneity is one of the joys of existence, especially if you prepare for it in advance.
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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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I enjoy listening to classical music and heavy metal.
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In loquaciousness lay insanity.
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Advances have fallen, generally, for everything except the biggest potential bestsellers.
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The universe is full of dead people who lived by assumption.
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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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