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.
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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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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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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I would hope that my characters have become deeper and more rounded personalities.
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I try to challenge myself as much as possible, as often as possible.
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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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Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting.
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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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Even as children, human beings fabricate elaborate revenge fantasies.
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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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An apex is always surrounded only by emptiness
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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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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 hear entire symphonies, oratorios, in my head, but I can’t write a note.
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