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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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Science-fiction allowed me to go places that were otherwise inaccessible, which is why I started reading it.
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Already Inaccessible Otherwise Read Start
In one book, CACHALOT, just for my own amusement, every character is based directly on someone I have known.
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Amusement Base Book Cachalot Character Directly Every Known Someone
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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Concentration Connect Level Personal Special Effect
Living gives you a better understanding of life.
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Better Give Life Living Understanding
Wider travels have given me considerably greater insight into how cultural differences affect not only people, but politics and art.
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Art Culture Difference Wide Politics Travel
I have a bad tendency to get rapidly bored with my own material.
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Bad Bore Material Own Rapidly Tendency
Keep writing. Try to do a little bit every day, even if the result looks like crap.
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Bit Crap Day Every Keep Little Look Result Write
There’s certainly more new SF available than when I started writing.
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Available Certainly More New Start Write
Besides the mistakes that are pointed out, I love the way readers become involved with the characters.
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Become Besides Character Involve Love Mistake Reader Way
I try to challenge myself as much as possible, as often as possible.
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Challenge Much Myself Often Possible Try
I see the Jedi mission as giving up a normal life in exchange for protecting the innocent.
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exchange Give Innocent Life Normal People Protect See
I hear entire symphonies, oratorios, in my head, but I can’t write a note.
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Entire Head Note Oratorios Symphony Write
How much research I have to do depends on the nature of the story. For fantasy, none at all.
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All Depend Fantasy Nature None Research Story
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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Basketball Divide Hobby Least Once Play Traditional Year
I’d really like to have been Sir Richard Francis Burton, but it’s the wrong century.
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Celebrity Century Like People Really Rong
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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Been Diet Discover Fury Gain Hit Month Pound Six Storm Women
Writing allows me the time to travel and see the world, which is what I always wanted to do.
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Allow Always Time Travel Want World Write
I enjoy listening to classical music and heavy metal.
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Classical Enjoy heavy Listen Metal
Advances have fallen, generally, for everything except the biggest potential bestsellers.
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Advantage Bestsellers Biggest Everything Except Fallen Generally Potential
Some of it is carefully structured and well-thought-out. That’s where the real danger lies.
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Carefully Danger Real Some Structure Thought Well
The universe is full of dead people who lived by assumption.
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Assumption Dead Full Live People Universe
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
Growing up, I never gave a thought to being a writer.
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Being Explorer Grow Traveler Want Writer
The thing all writers do best is find ways to avoid writing.
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Avoid Find Think Way Write Writer
Given all the changes, both economic and technological, SF hasn’t done too badly.
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Badly Change Economic Give Technology
An apex is always surrounded only by emptiness
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Apex Emptiness Surround
Don’t try to write to the trend of the moment.
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Moment Trend Try Write

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