I enjoy listening to classical music and heavy metal.
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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Keep writing. Try to do a little bit every day, even if the result looks like crap.
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Spontaneity is one of the joys of existence, especially if you prepare for it in advance.
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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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So rewriting is hard for me. I mean, I already know the story and would rather read something new.
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Even as children, human beings fabricate elaborate revenge fantasies.
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An apex is always surrounded only by emptiness
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It’s a life of sacrifice. There are rewards, but also a certain degree of sterility.
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In loquaciousness lay insanity.
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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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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 engage in too many activities already through the actions of my characters.
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Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting.
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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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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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The thing all writers do best is find ways to avoid writing.
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