I’ve been writing full-time since 1978.
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.
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I enjoy listening to classical music and heavy metal.
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We’re all nothing but unified arrangements of atoms and particles, drifting around.
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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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I have a bad tendency to get rapidly bored with my own material.
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The universe is full of dead people who lived by assumption.
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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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Last year I went to a worldcon for the first time in two decades. I may go again this year.
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Getting inside the mind of a terrorist wasn’t difficult at all.
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Growing up, I never gave a thought to being a writer.
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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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There’s certainly more new SF available than when I started writing.
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Science-fiction allowed me to go places that were otherwise inaccessible, which is why I started reading it.
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Given all the changes, both economic and technological, SF hasn’t done too badly.
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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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I’d really like to have been Sir Richard Francis Burton, but it’s the wrong century.
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