I’d really like to have been Sir Richard Francis Burton, but it’s the wrong century.
ALAN DEAN FOSTERThe storm hit with all the fury of a woman who’d been dieting for six months, only to discover she’d gained four pounds.
More Alan Dean Foster Quotes
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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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I would hope that my characters have become deeper and more rounded personalities.
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An apex is always surrounded only by emptiness
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Don’t try to write to the trend of the moment.
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Growing up, I never gave a thought to being a writer.
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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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I enjoy listening to classical music and heavy metal.
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There’s certainly more new SF available than when I started writing.
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Getting from page four to page five is more important than spending three weeks getting page four perfect.
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Spontaneity is one of the joys of existence, especially if you prepare for it in advance.
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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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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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I’ve been writing full-time since 1978.
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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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We’re all nothing but unified arrangements of atoms and particles, drifting around.
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