Wider travels have given me considerably greater insight into how cultural differences affect not only people, but politics and art.
ALAN DEAN FOSTERGrowing up, I never gave a thought to being a writer.
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Growing up, I never gave a thought to being a writer.
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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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There’s certainly more new SF available than when I started writing.
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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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All I ever wanted to be was a traveler and explorer.
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Spontaneity is one of the joys of existence, especially if you prepare for it in advance.
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Advances have fallen, generally, for everything except the biggest potential bestsellers.
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I engage in too many activities already through the actions of my characters.
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I’ve been writing full-time since 1978.
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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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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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Even as children, human beings fabricate elaborate revenge fantasies.
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