I’ve been writing full-time since 1978.
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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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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The universe is full of dead people who lived by assumption.
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All I ever wanted to be was a traveler and explorer.
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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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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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Writing allows me the time to travel and see the world, which is what I always wanted to do.
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An apex is always surrounded only by emptiness
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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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Advances have fallen, generally, for everything except the biggest potential bestsellers.
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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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Don’t try to write to the trend of the moment.
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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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We’re all nothing but unified arrangements of atoms and particles, drifting around.
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