I write early in the morning, usually after reading portions of at least half a dozen newspapers on the web.
ALAN DEAN FOSTERI engage in too many activities already through the actions of my characters.
More Alan Dean Foster Quotes
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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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So rewriting is hard for me. I mean, I already know the story and would rather read something new.
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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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Last year I went to a worldcon for the first time in two decades. I may go again this year.
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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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An apex is always surrounded only by emptiness
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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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Writing allows me the time to travel and see the world, which is what I always wanted to do.
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The thing all writers do best is find ways to avoid writing.
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I have a bad tendency to get rapidly bored with my own material.
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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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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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There’s certainly more new SF available than when I started writing.
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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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Advances have fallen, generally, for everything except the biggest potential bestsellers.
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