I play basketball and try to go diving at least once a year. I don’t really have hobbies in the traditional sense.
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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Living gives you a better understanding of life.
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Advances have fallen, generally, for everything except the biggest potential bestsellers.
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Last year I went to a worldcon for the first time in two decades. I may go again this year.
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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 enjoy listening to classical music and heavy metal.
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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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It’s a life of sacrifice. There are rewards, but also a certain degree of sterility.
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An apex is always surrounded only by emptiness
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I see the Jedi mission as giving up a normal life in exchange for protecting the innocent.
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Writing allows me the time to travel and see the world, which is what I always wanted to do.
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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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Besides the mistakes that are pointed out, I love the way readers become involved with the characters.
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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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Some of it is carefully structured and well-thought-out. That’s where the real danger lies.
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