I enjoy listening to classical music and heavy metal.
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 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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The universe is full of dead people who lived by assumption.
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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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All I ever wanted to be was a traveler and explorer.
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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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Last year I went to a worldcon for the first time in two decades. I may go again this year.
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That means there’s also more bad SF available. Whether there is also more good is a matter for future historians of the field.
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I hear entire symphonies, oratorios, in my head, but I can’t write a note.
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There’s certainly more new SF available than when I started writing.
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I have a bad tendency to get rapidly bored with my own material.
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I engage in too many activities already through the actions of my characters.
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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.
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Even as children, human beings fabricate elaborate revenge fantasies.
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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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I try to challenge myself as much as possible, as often as possible.
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