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 FOSTERLast year I went to a worldcon for the first time in two decades. I may go again this year.
More Alan Dean Foster Quotes
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All I ever wanted to be was a traveler and explorer.
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I’ve been writing full-time since 1978.
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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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Where lies the line between sorcery and science? It is only a matter of terminology, my friend.
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We’re all nothing but unified arrangements of atoms and particles, drifting around.
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I would hope that my characters have become deeper and more rounded personalities.
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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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I try to challenge myself as much as possible, as often as possible.
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The universe is full of dead people who lived by assumption.
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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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Don’t try to write to the trend of the moment.
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Keep writing. Try to do a little bit every day, even if the result looks like crap.
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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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Writing allows me the time to travel and see the world, which is what I always wanted to do.
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An apex is always surrounded only by emptiness
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