Wider travels have given me considerably greater insight into how cultural differences affect not only people, but politics and art.
ALAN DEAN FOSTERI would hope that my characters have become deeper and more rounded personalities.
More Alan Dean Foster Quotes
-
-
I usually do one con a year as a GoH and try to make the World Fantasy Convention for business purposes.
ALAN DEAN FOSTER -
Even as children, human beings fabricate elaborate revenge fantasies.
ALAN DEAN FOSTER -
I’d really like to have been Sir Richard Francis Burton, but it’s the wrong century.
ALAN DEAN FOSTER -
I play basketball and try to go diving at least once a year. I don’t really have hobbies in the traditional sense.
ALAN DEAN FOSTER -
I’ve been writing full-time since 1978.
ALAN DEAN FOSTER -
Some of it is carefully structured and well-thought-out. That’s where the real danger lies.
ALAN DEAN FOSTER -
There’s certainly more new SF available than when I started writing.
ALAN DEAN FOSTER -
Science-fiction allowed me to go places that were otherwise inaccessible, which is why I started reading it.
ALAN DEAN FOSTER -
Living gives you a better understanding of life.
ALAN DEAN FOSTER -
Writing allows me the time to travel and see the world, which is what I always wanted to do.
ALAN DEAN FOSTER -
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.
ALAN DEAN FOSTER -
In one book, CACHALOT, just for my own amusement, every character is based directly on someone I have known.
ALAN DEAN FOSTER -
Getting inside the mind of a terrorist wasn’t difficult at all.
ALAN DEAN FOSTER -
How much research I have to do depends on the nature of the story. For fantasy, none at all.
ALAN DEAN FOSTER -
All I ever wanted to be was a traveler and explorer.
ALAN DEAN FOSTER






