I engage in too many activities already through the actions of my characters.
ALAN DEAN FOSTERI play basketball and try to go diving at least once a year. I don’t really have hobbies in the traditional sense.
More Alan Dean Foster Quotes
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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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Last year I went to a worldcon for the first time in two decades. I may go again this year.
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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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Don’t try to write to the trend of the moment.
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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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I hear entire symphonies, oratorios, in my head, but I can’t write a note.
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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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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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I try to challenge myself as much as possible, as often as possible.
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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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Where lies the line between sorcery and science? It is only a matter of terminology, my friend.
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All I ever wanted to be was a traveler and explorer.
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It’s a life of sacrifice. There are rewards, but also a certain degree of sterility.
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Getting inside the mind of a terrorist wasn’t difficult at all.
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I’ve been writing full-time since 1978.
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