Wider travels have given me considerably greater insight into how cultural differences affect not only people, but politics and art.
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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Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting.
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Getting from page four to page five is more important than spending three weeks getting page four perfect.
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An apex is always surrounded only by emptiness
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We’re all nothing but unified arrangements of atoms and particles, drifting around.
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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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Advances have fallen, generally, for everything except the biggest potential bestsellers.
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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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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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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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It is always hard when reality intrudes on belief.
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All I ever wanted to be was a traveler and explorer.
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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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I would hope that my characters have become deeper and more rounded personalities.
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I’ve been writing full-time since 1978.
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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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