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Wider travels have given me considerably greater insight into how cultural differences affect not only people, but politics and art.

Alan Dean Foster

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I’d really like to have been Sir Richard Francis Burton, but it’s the wrong century.
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Given all the changes, both economic and technological, SF hasn’t done too badly.
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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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I hear entire symphonies, oratorios, in my head, but I can’t write a note.
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I try to challenge myself as much as possible, as often as possible.
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The thing all writers do best is find ways to avoid writing.
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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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It is always hard when reality intrudes on belief.
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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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It’s a life of sacrifice. There are rewards, but also a certain degree of sterility.
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I engage in too many activities already through the actions of my characters.
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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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Writing allows me the time to travel and see the world, which is what I always wanted to do.
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In loquaciousness lay insanity.
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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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Wider travels have given me considerably greater insight into how cultural differences affect not only people, but politics and art.
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Art Culture Difference Wide Politics Travel
I would hope that my characters have become deeper and more rounded personalities.
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All I ever wanted to be was a traveler and explorer.
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Don’t try to write to the trend of the moment.
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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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Even as children, human beings fabricate elaborate revenge fantasies.
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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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There is nothing in art, in philosophy, or in politics to match the fervor of mutual cooperation among discordant bands of fanatics.
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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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Besides the mistakes that are pointed out, I love the way readers become involved with the characters.
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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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