Keep writing. Try to do a little bit every day, even if the result looks like crap.
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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I write early in the morning, usually after reading portions of at least half a dozen newspapers on the web.
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I would hope that my characters have become deeper and more rounded personalities.
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Growing up, I never gave a thought to being a writer.
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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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Given all the changes, both economic and technological, SF hasn’t done too badly.
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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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I have a bad tendency to get rapidly bored with my own material.
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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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Science-fiction allowed me to go places that were otherwise inaccessible, which is why I started reading it.
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I engage in too many activities already through the actions of my characters.
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Spontaneity is one of the joys of existence, especially if you prepare for it in advance.
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We’re not a particular species. Check out popular video games.
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Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting.
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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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I’d really like to have been Sir Richard Francis Burton, but it’s the wrong century.
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