Writing allows me the time to travel and see the world, which is what I always wanted to do.
ALAN DEAN FOSTERSpontaneity is one of the joys of existence, especially if you prepare for it in advance.
More Alan Dean Foster Quotes
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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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All I ever wanted to be was a traveler and explorer.
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I would hope that my characters have become deeper and more rounded personalities.
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I have a bad tendency to get rapidly bored with my own material.
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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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I try to challenge myself as much as possible, as often as possible.
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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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I hear entire symphonies, oratorios, in my head, but I can’t write a note.
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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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Enjoying consciousness every now and then for a second or so before splitting up to become bits and pieces of trees and stars and french fries.
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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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Growing up, I never gave a thought to being a writer.
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Some of it is carefully structured and well-thought-out. That’s where the real danger lies.
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The universe is full of dead people who lived by assumption.
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