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Growing up, I never gave a thought to being a writer.

Alan Dean Foster

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I have a bad tendency to get rapidly bored with my own material.
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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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In loquaciousness lay insanity.
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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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Given all the changes, both economic and technological, SF hasn’t done too badly.
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I usually do one con a year as a GoH and try to make the World Fantasy Convention for business purposes.
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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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Besides the mistakes that are pointed out, I love the way readers become involved with the characters.
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Become Besides Character Involve Love Mistake Reader Way
In one book, CACHALOT, just for my own amusement, every character is based directly on someone I have known.
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An apex is always surrounded only by emptiness
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Apex Emptiness Surround
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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Concentration Connect Level Personal Special Effect
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
Even as children, human beings fabricate elaborate revenge fantasies.
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All I ever wanted to be was a traveler and explorer.
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All Explorer Traveler Want
Keep writing. Try to do a little bit every day, even if the result looks like crap.
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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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