Given all the changes, both economic and technological, SF hasn’t done too badly.
ALAN DEAN FOSTERWhere lies the line between sorcery and science? It is only a matter of terminology, my friend.
More Alan Dean Foster Quotes
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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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I see the Jedi mission as giving up a normal life in exchange for protecting the innocent.
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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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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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We’re all nothing but unified arrangements of atoms and particles, drifting around.
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I would hope that my characters have become deeper and more rounded personalities.
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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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Science-fiction allowed me to go places that were otherwise inaccessible, which is why I started reading it.
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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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Wider travels have given me considerably greater insight into how cultural differences affect not only people, but politics and art.
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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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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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