I play basketball and try to go diving at least once a year. I don’t really have hobbies in the traditional sense.
ALAN DEAN FOSTERI’ve been writing full-time since 1978.
More Alan Dean Foster Quotes
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I enjoy listening to classical music and heavy metal.
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I usually do one con a year as a GoH and try to make the World Fantasy Convention for business purposes.
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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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Where lies the line between sorcery and science? It is only a matter of terminology, my friend.
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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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The thing all writers do best is find ways to avoid writing.
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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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Living gives you a better understanding of life.
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I engage in too many activities already through the actions of my characters.
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How much research I have to do depends on the nature of the story. For fantasy, none at all.
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We’re all nothing but unified arrangements of atoms and particles, drifting around.
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An apex is always surrounded only by emptiness
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Don’t try to write to the trend of the moment.
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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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It is always hard when reality intrudes on belief.
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