It is always hard when reality intrudes on belief.
ALAN DEAN FOSTERKeep writing. Try to do a little bit every day, even if the result looks like crap.
More Alan Dean Foster Quotes
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An apex is always surrounded only by emptiness
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The universe is full of dead people who lived by assumption.
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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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All I ever wanted to be was a traveler and explorer.
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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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I enjoy listening to classical music and heavy metal.
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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 loquaciousness lay insanity.
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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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I’d really like to have been Sir Richard Francis Burton, but it’s the wrong century.
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There’s certainly more new SF available than when I started writing.
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Getting inside the mind of a terrorist wasn’t difficult at all.
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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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Spontaneity is one of the joys of existence, especially if you prepare for it in advance.
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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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Enjoying consciousness every now and then for a second or so before splitting up to become bits and pieces of trees and stars and french fries.
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We’re all nothing but unified arrangements of atoms and particles, drifting around.
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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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Some of it is carefully structured and well-thought-out. That’s where the real danger lies.
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It’s a life of sacrifice. There are rewards, but also a certain degree of sterility.
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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 try to challenge myself as much as possible, as often as possible.
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We’re not a particular species. Check out popular video games.
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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 see the Jedi mission as giving up a normal life in exchange for protecting the innocent.
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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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