That means there’s also more bad SF available. Whether there is also more good is a matter for future historians of the field.
ALAN DEAN FOSTERI’d really like to have been Sir Richard Francis Burton, but it’s the wrong century.
More Alan Dean Foster Quotes
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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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Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting.
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It’s a life of sacrifice. There are rewards, but also a certain degree of sterility.
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We’re not a particular species. Check out popular video games.
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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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If you’re crazy, there’s two things you can do to make yourself feel better: One is to get yourself cured. The other is to make everyone you have to deal with crazy.
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I hear entire symphonies, oratorios, in my head, but I can’t write a note.
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Even as children, human beings fabricate elaborate revenge fantasies.
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I enjoy listening to classical music and heavy metal.
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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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I play basketball and try to go diving at least once a year. I don’t really have hobbies in the traditional sense.
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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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Getting inside the mind of a terrorist wasn’t difficult at all.
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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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An apex is always surrounded only by emptiness
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