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Writing allows me the time to travel and see the world, which is what I always wanted to do.

Alan Dean Foster

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It’s a life of sacrifice. There are rewards, but also a certain degree of sterility.
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Certain Kife Reward Sacrifice Sterility
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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Business Convention Fantasy Make Purpose Usually World Year
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
Even as children, human beings fabricate elaborate revenge fantasies.
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Beings Children Elaborate Even Fabricate Human
The overwhelming triumph of the international multimedia conglomerate has resulted in less diversity within the field and has made it much harder for newer writers not only to break in, but to make any kind of a living while doing so.
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Conglomerate Diversity Feel International Made Multimedia Overwhelming Triumph
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
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’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
I engage in too many activities already through the actions of my characters.
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Action Activity Already Character Engage Many Though
Given all the changes, both economic and technological, SF hasn’t done too badly.
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Badly Change Economic Give Technology
I have a bad tendency to get rapidly bored with my own material.
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Bad Bore Material Own Rapidly Tendency
All I ever wanted to be was a traveler and explorer.
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All Explorer Traveler Want
Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting.
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Better Chaos Freedom Just Light
In loquaciousness lay insanity.
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Insanity Lay
The universe is full of dead people who lived by assumption.
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Assumption Dead Full Live People Universe
Besides the mistakes that are pointed out, I love the way readers become involved with the characters.
ALAN DEAN FOSTER

Become Besides Character Involve Love Mistake Reader Way
Getting from page four to page five is more important than spending three weeks getting page four perfect.
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Four Get Important More Page Perfect Spend Week
Growing up, I never gave a thought to being a writer.
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Being Explorer Grow Traveler Want Writer
There’s certainly more new SF available than when I started writing.
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Available Certainly More New Start Write
It is always hard when reality intrudes on belief.
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Always Belief Hard Intrude Reality
I enjoy listening to classical music and heavy metal.
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Classical Enjoy heavy Listen Metal
I write early in the morning, usually after reading portions of at least half a dozen newspapers on the web.
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Dozen Early Half Least Morning Usually Newspaper Portion Read Web White
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
An apex is always surrounded only by emptiness
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Apex Emptiness Surround
Advances have fallen, generally, for everything except the biggest potential bestsellers.
ALAN DEAN FOSTER

Advantage Bestsellers Biggest Everything Except Fallen Generally Potential
So rewriting is hard for me. I mean, I already know the story and would rather read something new.
ALAN DEAN FOSTER

Already Know Hard Me New Read Rewrite Something
Writing allows me the time to travel and see the world, which is what I always wanted to do.
ALAN DEAN FOSTER

Allow Always Time Travel Want World Write

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