Dawn was written well before 9/11. People speak a lot today about the banality of evil, but not all evil is banal.
ALAN DEAN FOSTERWider travels have given me considerably greater insight into how cultural differences affect not only people, but politics and art.
More Alan Dean Foster Quotes
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I try to challenge myself as much as possible, as often as possible.
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I’ve been writing full-time since 1978.
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We’re all nothing but unified arrangements of atoms and particles, drifting around.
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There’s certainly more new SF available than when I started writing.
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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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Where lies the line between sorcery and science? It is only a matter of terminology, my friend.
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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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An apex is always surrounded only by emptiness
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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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So rewriting is hard for me. I mean, I already know the story and would rather read something new.
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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 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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Getting from page four to page five is more important than spending three weeks getting page four perfect.
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All I ever wanted to be was a traveler and explorer.
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