Given all the changes, both economic and technological, SF hasn’t done too badly.
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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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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I see the Jedi mission as giving up a normal life in exchange for protecting the innocent.
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All I ever wanted to be was a traveler and explorer.
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Growing up, I never gave a thought to being a writer.
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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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The universe is full of dead people who lived by assumption.
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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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Living gives you a better understanding of life.
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Where lies the line between sorcery and science? It is only a matter of terminology, my friend.
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I engage in too many activities already through the actions of my characters.
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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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Don’t try to write to the trend of the moment.
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I’ve been writing full-time since 1978.
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I hear entire symphonies, oratorios, in my head, but I can’t write a note.
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