Dawn was written well before 9/11. People speak a lot today about the banality of evil, but not all evil is banal.
ALAN DEAN FOSTERIn loquaciousness lay insanity.
More Alan Dean Foster Quotes
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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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Advances have fallen, generally, for everything except the biggest potential bestsellers.
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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 write early in the morning, usually after reading portions of at least half a dozen newspapers on the web.
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An apex is always surrounded only by emptiness
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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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Getting inside the mind of a terrorist wasn’t difficult at all.
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There’s certainly more new SF available than when I started writing.
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I see the Jedi mission as giving up a normal life in exchange for protecting the innocent.
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Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting.
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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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I’d really like to have been Sir Richard Francis Burton, but it’s the wrong century.
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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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I try to challenge myself as much as possible, as often as possible.
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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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