Keep writing. Try to do a little bit every day, even if the result looks like crap.
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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Getting from page four to page five is more important than spending three weeks getting page four perfect.
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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 hear entire symphonies, oratorios, in my head, but I can’t write a note.
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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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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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Growing up, I never gave a thought to being a writer.
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Where lies the line between sorcery and science? It is only a matter of terminology, my friend.
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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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So rewriting is hard for me. I mean, I already know the story and would rather read something new.
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Don’t try to write to the trend of the moment.
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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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Getting inside the mind of a terrorist wasn’t difficult at all.
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Last year I went to a worldcon for the first time in two decades. I may go again this year.
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Even as children, human beings fabricate elaborate revenge fantasies.
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