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ALAN DEAN FOSTERScience-fiction allowed me to go places that were otherwise inaccessible, which is why I started reading it.
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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 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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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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Getting inside the mind of a terrorist wasn’t difficult at all.
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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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Living gives you a better understanding of life.
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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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It’s a life of sacrifice. There are rewards, but also a certain degree of sterility.
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It is always hard when reality intrudes on belief.
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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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Getting from page four to page five is more important than spending three weeks getting page four perfect.
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Don’t try to write to the trend of the moment.
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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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The thing all writers do best is find ways to avoid writing.
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