Given all the changes, both economic and technological, SF hasn’t done too badly.
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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How much research I have to do depends on the nature of the story. For fantasy, none at all.
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I engage in too many activities already through the actions of my characters.
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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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There’s certainly more new SF available than when I started writing.
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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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I 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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Wider travels have given me considerably greater insight into how cultural differences affect not only people, but politics and art.
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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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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 usually do one con a year as a GoH and try to make the World Fantasy Convention for business purposes.
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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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I see the Jedi mission as giving up a normal life in exchange for protecting the innocent.
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When readers start asking about character motivations instead of concentrating on the special effects, it means you’re connecting with them on a personal level.
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Don’t try to write to the trend of the moment.
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