Getting from page four to page five is more important than spending three weeks getting page four perfect.
ALAN DEAN FOSTERThere is nothing in art, in philosophy, or in politics to match the fervor of mutual cooperation among discordant bands of fanatics.
More Alan Dean Foster Quotes
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I try to challenge myself as much as possible, as often as possible.
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There’s certainly more new SF available than when I started writing.
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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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We’re all nothing but unified arrangements of atoms and particles, drifting around.
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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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The universe is full of dead people who lived by assumption.
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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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The thing all writers do best is find ways to avoid writing.
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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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An apex is always surrounded only by emptiness
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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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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 would hope that my characters have become deeper and more rounded personalities.
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Growing up, I never gave a thought to being a writer.
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In loquaciousness lay insanity.
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