I usually do one con a year as a GoH and try to make the World Fantasy Convention for business purposes.
ALAN DEAN FOSTERThere’s certainly more new SF available than when I started writing.
More Alan Dean Foster Quotes
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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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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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How much research I have to do depends on the nature of the story. For fantasy, none at all.
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It’s a life of sacrifice. There are rewards, but also a certain degree of sterility.
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Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting.
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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 hear entire symphonies, oratorios, in my head, but I can’t write a note.
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In loquaciousness lay insanity.
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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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Growing up, I never gave a thought to being a writer.
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The universe is full of dead people who lived by assumption.
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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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It is always hard when reality intrudes on belief.
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An apex is always surrounded only by emptiness
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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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