I try to challenge myself as much as possible, as often as possible.
ALAN DEAN FOSTERI hear entire symphonies, oratorios, in my head, but I can’t write a note.
More Alan Dean Foster Quotes
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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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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.
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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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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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We’re all nothing but unified arrangements of atoms and particles, drifting around.
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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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So rewriting is hard for me. I mean, I already know the story and would rather read something new.
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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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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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I enjoy listening to classical music and heavy metal.
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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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An apex is always surrounded only by emptiness
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Keep writing. Try to do a little bit every day, even if the result looks like crap.
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It is always hard when reality intrudes on belief.
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