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.
ALAN DEAN FOSTERAll I ever wanted to be was a traveler and explorer.
More Alan Dean Foster Quotes
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I have a bad tendency to get rapidly bored with my own material.
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We’re all nothing but unified arrangements of atoms and particles, drifting around.
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Don’t try to write to the trend of the moment.
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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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Some of it is carefully structured and well-thought-out. That’s where the real danger lies.
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Wider travels have given me considerably greater insight into how cultural differences affect not only people, but politics and art.
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Given all the changes, both economic and technological, SF hasn’t done too badly.
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It is always hard when reality intrudes on belief.
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I try to challenge myself as much as possible, as often as possible.
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The universe is full of dead people who lived by assumption.
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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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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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Advances have fallen, generally, for everything except the biggest potential bestsellers.
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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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Besides the mistakes that are pointed out, I love the way readers become involved with the characters.
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