Even as children, human beings fabricate elaborate revenge fantasies.
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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I’d really like to have been Sir Richard Francis Burton, but it’s the wrong century.
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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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The universe is full of dead people who lived by assumption.
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Writing allows me the time to travel and see the world, which is what I always wanted to do.
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We’re all nothing but unified arrangements of atoms and particles, drifting around.
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I engage in too many activities already through the actions of my characters.
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Enjoying consciousness every now and then for a second or so before splitting up to become bits and pieces of trees and stars and french fries.
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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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I’ve been writing full-time since 1978.
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I write early in the morning, usually after reading portions of at least half a dozen newspapers on the web.
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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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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 try to challenge myself as much as possible, as often as possible.
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All I ever wanted to be was a traveler and explorer.
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