Given all the changes, both economic and technological, SF hasn’t done too badly.
ALAN DEAN FOSTERThere’s certainly more new SF available than when I started writing.
More Alan Dean Foster Quotes
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The universe is full of dead people who lived by assumption.
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Besides the mistakes that are pointed out, I love the way readers become involved with the characters.
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Getting from page four to page five is more important than spending three weeks getting page four perfect.
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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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Spontaneity is one of the joys of existence, especially if you prepare for it in advance.
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Some of it is carefully structured and well-thought-out. That’s where the real danger lies.
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An apex is always surrounded only by emptiness
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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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I engage in too many activities already through the actions of my characters.
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In loquaciousness lay insanity.
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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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In one book, CACHALOT, just for my own amusement, every character is based directly on someone I have known.
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I enjoy listening to classical music and heavy metal.
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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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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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