Science-fiction allowed me to go places that were otherwise inaccessible, which is why I started reading it.
ALAN DEAN FOSTERAll I ever wanted to be was a traveler and explorer.
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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In one book, CACHALOT, just for my own amusement, every character is based directly on someone I have known.
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In loquaciousness lay insanity.
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All I ever wanted to be was a traveler and explorer.
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Getting inside the mind of a terrorist wasn’t difficult at all.
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The thing all writers do best is find ways to avoid writing.
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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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I would hope that my characters have become deeper and more rounded personalities.
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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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I hear entire symphonies, oratorios, in my head, but I can’t write a note.
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Advances have fallen, generally, for everything except the biggest potential bestsellers.
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Living gives you a better understanding of life.
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I have a bad tendency to get rapidly bored with my own material.
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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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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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Enjoying consciousness every now and then for a second or so before splitting up to become bits and pieces of trees and stars and french fries.
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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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It’s a life of sacrifice. There are rewards, but also a certain degree of sterility.
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We’re all nothing but unified arrangements of atoms and particles, drifting around.
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The universe is full of dead people who lived by assumption.
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We’re not a particular species. Check out popular video games.
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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 see the Jedi mission as giving up a normal life in exchange for protecting the innocent.
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There’s certainly more new SF available than when I started writing.
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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’ve been writing full-time since 1978.
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