Spontaneity is one of the joys of existence, especially if you prepare for it in advance.
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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Last year I went to a worldcon for the first time in two decades. I may go again this year.
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I engage in too many activities already through the actions of my characters.
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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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It’s a life of sacrifice. There are rewards, but also a certain degree of sterility.
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I hear entire symphonies, oratorios, in my head, but I can’t write a note.
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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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Don’t try to write to the trend of the moment.
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All I ever wanted to be was a traveler and explorer.
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I usually do one con a year as a GoH and try to make the World Fantasy Convention for business purposes.
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We’re not a particular species. Check out popular video games.
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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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An apex is always surrounded only by emptiness
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I’ve been writing full-time since 1978.
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Dawn was written well before 9/11. People speak a lot today about the banality of evil, but not all evil is banal.
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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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