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ALAN DEAN FOSTERI’ve been writing full-time since 1978.
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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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The thing all writers do best is find ways to avoid writing.
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Advances have fallen, generally, for everything except the biggest potential bestsellers.
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That means there’s also more bad SF available. Whether there is also more good is a matter for future historians of the field.
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The storm hit with all the fury of a woman who’d been dieting for six months, only to discover she’d gained four pounds.
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All I ever wanted to be was a traveler and explorer.
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In loquaciousness lay insanity.
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Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting.
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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 have a bad tendency to get rapidly bored with my own material.
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There is nothing in art, in philosophy, or in politics to match the fervor of mutual cooperation among discordant bands of fanatics.
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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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Don’t try to write to the trend of the moment.
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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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Last year I went to a worldcon for the first time in two decades. I may go again this year.
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