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.
ALAN DEAN FOSTERI engage in too many activities already through the actions of my characters.
More Alan Dean Foster Quotes
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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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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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In loquaciousness lay insanity.
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We’re all nothing but unified arrangements of atoms and particles, drifting around.
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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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The universe is full of dead people who lived by assumption.
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Science-fiction allowed me to go places that were otherwise inaccessible, which is why I started reading it.
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Don’t try to write to the trend of the moment.
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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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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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Even as children, human beings fabricate elaborate revenge fantasies.
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An apex is always surrounded only by emptiness
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Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting.
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There is nothing in art, in philosophy, or in politics to match the fervor of mutual cooperation among discordant bands of fanatics.
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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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