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.
ALAN DEAN FOSTERGrowing up, I never gave a thought to being a writer.
More Alan Dean Foster Quotes
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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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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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In one book, CACHALOT, just for my own amusement, every character is based directly on someone I have known.
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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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We’re not a particular species. Check out popular video games.
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Growing up, I never gave a thought to being a writer.
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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 see the Jedi mission as giving up a normal life in exchange for protecting the innocent.
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Given all the changes, both economic and technological, SF hasn’t done too badly.
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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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Don’t try to write to the trend of the moment.
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Advances have fallen, generally, for everything except the biggest potential bestsellers.
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Spontaneity is one of the joys of existence, especially if you prepare for it in advance.
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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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It is always hard when reality intrudes on belief.
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