Given all the changes, both economic and technological, SF hasn’t done too badly.
ALAN DEAN FOSTERThe 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.
More Alan Dean Foster Quotes
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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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Advances have fallen, generally, for everything except the biggest potential bestsellers.
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Living gives you a better understanding of life.
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Where lies the line between sorcery and science? It is only a matter of terminology, my friend.
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We’re not a particular species. Check out popular video games.
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All I ever wanted to be was a traveler and explorer.
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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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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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The universe is full of dead people who lived by assumption.
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I have a bad tendency to get rapidly bored with my own material.
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Spontaneity is one of the joys of existence, especially if you prepare for it in advance.
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An apex is always surrounded only by emptiness
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Some of it is carefully structured and well-thought-out. That’s where the real danger lies.
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In one book, CACHALOT, just for my own amusement, every character is based directly on someone I have known.
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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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