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I hear entire symphonies, oratorios, in my head, but I can’t write a note.

Alan Dean Foster

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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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Living gives you a better understanding of life.
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Better Give Life Living Understanding
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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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 have a bad tendency to get rapidly bored with my own material.
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Bad Bore Material Own Rapidly Tendency
We’re all nothing but unified arrangements of atoms and particles, drifting around.
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Around Arrangement Atom Drift Enjoy Nothing Particle Unfile
Besides the mistakes that are pointed out, I love the way readers become involved with the characters.
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Even as children, human beings fabricate elaborate revenge fantasies.
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Beings Children Elaborate Even Fabricate Human
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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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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Given all the changes, both economic and technological, SF hasn’t done too badly.
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Badly Change Economic Give Technology
So rewriting is hard for me. I mean, I already know the story and would rather read something new.
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Already Know Hard Me New Read Rewrite Something
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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Spontaneity is one of the joys of existence, especially if you prepare for it in advance.
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The universe is full of dead people who lived by assumption.
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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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