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 FOSTERI play basketball and try to go diving at least once a year. I don’t really have hobbies in the traditional sense.
ALAN DEAN FOSTERScience-fiction allowed me to go places that were otherwise inaccessible, which is why I started reading it.
ALAN DEAN FOSTERThere’s certainly more new SF available than when I started writing.
ALAN DEAN FOSTERLast year I went to a worldcon for the first time in two decades. I may go again this year.
ALAN DEAN FOSTERI usually do one con a year as a GoH and try to make the World Fantasy Convention for business purposes.
ALAN DEAN FOSTERThe universe is full of dead people who lived by assumption.
ALAN DEAN FOSTERIn loquaciousness lay insanity.
ALAN DEAN FOSTERThere is nothing in art, in philosophy, or in politics to match the fervor of mutual cooperation among discordant bands of fanatics.
ALAN DEAN FOSTERThe 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.
ALAN DEAN FOSTERIn one book, CACHALOT, just for my own amusement, every character is based directly on someone I have known.
ALAN DEAN FOSTERI see the Jedi mission as giving up a normal life in exchange for protecting the innocent.
ALAN DEAN FOSTERI have a bad tendency to get rapidly bored with my own material.
ALAN DEAN FOSTERWe’re all nothing but unified arrangements of atoms and particles, drifting around.
ALAN DEAN FOSTERI try to challenge myself as much as possible, as often as possible.
ALAN DEAN FOSTERHow much research I have to do depends on the nature of the story. For fantasy, none at all.
ALAN DEAN FOSTERI hear entire symphonies, oratorios, in my head, but I can’t write a note.
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