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
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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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I hear entire symphonies, oratorios, in my head, but I can’t write a note.
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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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Dawn was written well before 9/11. People speak a lot today about the banality of evil, but not all evil is banal.
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I’ve been writing full-time since 1978.
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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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In one book, CACHALOT, just for my own amusement, every character is based directly on someone I have known.
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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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Spontaneity is one of the joys of existence, especially if you prepare for it in advance.
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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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I have a bad tendency to get rapidly bored with my own material.
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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.
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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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In loquaciousness lay insanity.
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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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