We’re all nothing but unified arrangements of atoms and particles, drifting around.
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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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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Don’t try to write to the trend of the moment.
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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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There’s certainly more new SF available than when I started writing.
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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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Keep writing. Try to do a little bit every day, even if the result looks like crap.
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I enjoy listening to classical music and heavy metal.
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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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The thing all writers do best is find ways to avoid writing.
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The overwhelming triumph of the international multimedia conglomerate has resulted in less diversity within the field and has made it much harder for newer writers not only to break in, but to make any kind of a living while doing so.
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I have a bad tendency to get rapidly bored with my own material.
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All I ever wanted to be was a traveler and explorer.
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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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In one book, CACHALOT, just for my own amusement, every character is based directly on someone I have known.
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