When readers start asking about character motivations instead of concentrating on the special effects, it means you’re connecting with them on a personal level.
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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In one book, CACHALOT, just for my own amusement, every character is based directly on someone I have known.
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Don’t try to write to the trend of the moment.
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I play basketball and try to go diving at least once a year. I don’t really have hobbies in the traditional sense.
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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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Writing allows me the time to travel and see the world, which is what I always wanted to do.
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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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An apex is always surrounded only by emptiness
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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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Science-fiction allowed me to go places that were otherwise inaccessible, which is why I started reading it.
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The universe is full of dead people who lived by assumption.
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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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Living gives you a better understanding of life.
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Even as children, human beings fabricate elaborate revenge fantasies.
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I would hope that my characters have become deeper and more rounded personalities.
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