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Spontaneity is one of the joys of existence, especially if you prepare for it in advance.

Alan Dean Foster

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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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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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Besides the mistakes that are pointed out, I love the way readers become involved with the characters.
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Advances have fallen, generally, for everything except the biggest potential bestsellers.
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I have a bad tendency to get rapidly bored with my own material.
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Given all the changes, both economic and technological, SF hasn’t done too badly.
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We’re not a particular species. Check out popular video games.
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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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There’s certainly more new SF available than when I started writing.
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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’d really like to have been Sir Richard Francis Burton, but it’s the wrong century.
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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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Science-fiction allowed me to go places that were otherwise inaccessible, which is why I started reading it.
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It is always hard when reality intrudes on belief.
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Spontaneity is one of the joys of existence, especially if you prepare for it in advance.
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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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In loquaciousness lay insanity.
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An apex is always surrounded only by emptiness
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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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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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Wider travels have given me considerably greater insight into how cultural differences affect not only people, but politics and art.
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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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Don’t try to write to the trend of the moment.
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In one book, CACHALOT, just for my own amusement, every character is based directly on someone I have known.
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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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I see the Jedi mission as giving up a normal life in exchange for protecting the innocent.
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