There’s certainly more new SF available than when I started writing.
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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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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Growing up, I never gave a thought to being a writer.
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Living gives you a better understanding of life.
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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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I’d really like to have been Sir Richard Francis Burton, but it’s the wrong century.
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It’s a life of sacrifice. There are rewards, but also a certain degree of sterility.
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Advances have fallen, generally, for everything except the biggest potential bestsellers.
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In loquaciousness lay insanity.
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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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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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Last year I went to a worldcon for the first time in two decades. I may go again this year.
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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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I write early in the morning, usually after reading portions of at least half a dozen newspapers on the web.
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