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.
ALAN DEAN FOSTERSome of it is carefully structured and well-thought-out. That’s where the real danger lies.
More Alan Dean Foster Quotes
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The thing all writers do best is find ways to avoid writing.
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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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Even as children, human beings fabricate elaborate revenge fantasies.
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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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Keep writing. Try to do a little bit every day, even if the result looks like crap.
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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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In one book, CACHALOT, just for my own amusement, every character is based directly on someone I have known.
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Given all the changes, both economic and technological, SF hasn’t done too badly.
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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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Living gives you a better understanding of life.
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I try to challenge myself as much as possible, as often as possible.
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I enjoy listening to classical music and heavy metal.
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In loquaciousness lay insanity.
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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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Last year I went to a worldcon for the first time in two decades. I may go again this year.
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