When readers start asking about character motivations instead of concentrating on the special effects, it means you’re connecting with them on a personal level.
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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An apex is always surrounded only by emptiness
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There’s certainly more new SF available than when I started writing.
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I would hope that my characters have become deeper and more rounded personalities.
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If 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.
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I’ve been writing full-time since 1978.
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How much research I have to do depends on the nature of the story. For fantasy, none at all.
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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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Growing up, I never gave a thought to being a writer.
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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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The thing all writers do best is find ways to avoid writing.
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Getting inside the mind of a terrorist wasn’t difficult at all.
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I enjoy listening to classical music and heavy metal.
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We’re all nothing but unified arrangements of atoms and particles, drifting around.
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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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The universe is full of dead people who lived by assumption.
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