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 FOSTERI would hope that my characters have become deeper and more rounded personalities.
More Alan Dean Foster Quotes
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It’s a life of sacrifice. There are rewards, but also a certain degree of sterility.
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I try to challenge myself as much as possible, as often as possible.
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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 write early in the morning, usually after reading portions of at least half a dozen newspapers on the web.
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So rewriting is hard for me. I mean, I already know the story and would rather read something new.
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An apex is always surrounded only by emptiness
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Advances have fallen, generally, for everything except the biggest potential bestsellers.
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I hear entire symphonies, oratorios, in my head, but I can’t write a note.
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Some of it is carefully structured and well-thought-out. That’s where the real danger lies.
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How much research I have to do depends on the nature of the story. For fantasy, none at all.
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Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting.
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We’re not a particular species. Check out popular video games.
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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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Science-fiction allowed me to go places that were otherwise inaccessible, which is why I started reading it.
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Getting inside the mind of a terrorist wasn’t difficult at all.
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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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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’ve been writing full-time since 1978.
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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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Keep writing. Try to do a little bit every day, even if the result looks like crap.
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The overwhelming triumph of the international multimedia conglomerate has resulted in less diversity within the field and has made it much harder for newer writers not only to break in, but to make any kind of a living while doing so.
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Given all the changes, both economic and technological, SF hasn’t done too badly.
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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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Living gives you a better understanding of life.
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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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