I enjoy listening to classical music and heavy metal.
ALAN DEAN FOSTERGiven all the changes, both economic and technological, SF hasn’t done too badly.
More Alan Dean Foster Quotes
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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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It is always hard when reality intrudes on belief.
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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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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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Advances have fallen, generally, for everything except the biggest potential bestsellers.
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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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In one book, CACHALOT, just for my own amusement, every character is based directly on someone I have known.
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We’re all nothing but unified arrangements of atoms and particles, drifting around.
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The universe is full of dead people who lived by assumption.
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I would hope that my characters have become deeper and more rounded personalities.
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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 engage in too many activities already through the actions of my characters.
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I have a bad tendency to get rapidly bored with my own material.
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Even as children, human beings fabricate elaborate revenge fantasies.
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Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting.
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