Wider travels have given me considerably greater insight into how cultural differences affect not only people, but politics and art.
ALAN DEAN FOSTERScience-fiction allowed me to go places that were otherwise inaccessible, which is why I started reading it.
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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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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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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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Advances have fallen, generally, for everything except the biggest potential bestsellers.
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It is always hard when reality intrudes on belief.
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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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Spontaneity is one of the joys of existence, especially if you prepare for it in advance.
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Growing up, I never gave a thought to being a writer.
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The thing all writers do best is find ways to avoid writing.
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I try to challenge myself as much as possible, as often as possible.
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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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I write early in the morning, usually after reading portions of at least half a dozen newspapers on the web.
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An apex is always surrounded only by emptiness
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I enjoy listening to classical music and heavy metal.
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We’re not a particular species. Check out popular video games.
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