I engage in too many activities already through the actions of my characters.
ALAN DEAN FOSTERThat means there’s also more bad SF available. Whether there is also more good is a matter for future historians of the field.
More Alan Dean Foster Quotes
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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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Advances have fallen, generally, for everything except the biggest potential bestsellers.
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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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We’re not a particular species. Check out popular video games.
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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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The universe is full of dead people who lived by assumption.
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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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An apex is always surrounded only by emptiness
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Even as children, human beings fabricate elaborate revenge fantasies.
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Writing allows me the time to travel and see the world, which is what I always wanted to do.
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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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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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Don’t try to write to the trend of the moment.
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I would hope that my characters have become deeper and more rounded personalities.
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