I try to challenge myself as much as possible, as often as possible.
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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Last year I went to a worldcon for the first time in two decades. I may go again this year.
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I would hope that my characters have become deeper and more rounded personalities.
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Don’t try to write to the trend of the moment.
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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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The thing all writers do best is find ways to avoid writing.
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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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Advances have fallen, generally, for everything except the biggest potential bestsellers.
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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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Given all the changes, both economic and technological, SF hasn’t done too badly.
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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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Some of it is carefully structured and well-thought-out. That’s where the real danger lies.
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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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The universe is full of dead people who lived by assumption.
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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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