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.
ALAN DEAN FOSTERGetting from page four to page five is more important than spending three weeks getting page four perfect.
More Alan Dean Foster Quotes
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If you’re crazy, there’s two things you can do to make yourself feel better: One is to get yourself cured. The other is to make everyone you have to deal with crazy.
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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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Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting.
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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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Besides the mistakes that are pointed out, I love the way readers become involved with the characters.
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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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We’re not a particular species. Check out popular video games.
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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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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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In loquaciousness lay insanity.
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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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It is always hard when reality intrudes on belief.
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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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