I enjoy listening to classical music and heavy metal.
ALAN DEAN FOSTERI enjoy listening to classical music and heavy metal.
ALAN DEAN FOSTEREven as children, human beings fabricate elaborate revenge fantasies.
ALAN DEAN FOSTERWe’re not a particular species. Check out popular video games.
ALAN DEAN FOSTEREnjoying 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.
ALAN DEAN FOSTERI see the Jedi mission as giving up a normal life in exchange for protecting the innocent.
ALAN DEAN FOSTERAll I ever wanted to be was a traveler and explorer.
ALAN DEAN FOSTERIt is always hard when reality intrudes on belief.
ALAN DEAN FOSTERWider 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.
ALAN DEAN FOSTERIn one book, CACHALOT, just for my own amusement, every character is based directly on someone I have known.
ALAN DEAN FOSTERKeep writing. Try to do a little bit every day, even if the result looks like crap.
ALAN DEAN FOSTERThat means there’s also more bad SF available. Whether there is also more good is a matter for future historians of the field.
ALAN DEAN FOSTERIf 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.
ALAN DEAN FOSTERI hear entire symphonies, oratorios, in my head, but I can’t write a note.
ALAN DEAN FOSTERI write early in the morning, usually after reading portions of at least half a dozen newspapers on the web.
ALAN DEAN FOSTERAdvances have fallen, generally, for everything except the biggest potential bestsellers.
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