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.
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.
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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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We’re not a particular species. Check out popular video games.
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I enjoy listening to classical music and heavy metal.
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I play basketball and try to go diving at least once a year. I don’t really have hobbies in the traditional sense.
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Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting.
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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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I’d really like to have been Sir Richard Francis Burton, but it’s the wrong century.
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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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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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Science-fiction allowed me to go places that were otherwise inaccessible, which is why I started reading it.
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Even as children, human beings fabricate elaborate revenge fantasies.
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The thing all writers do best is find ways to avoid writing.
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There is nothing in art, in philosophy, or in politics to match the fervor of mutual cooperation among discordant bands of fanatics.
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Growing up, I never gave a thought to being a writer.
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An apex is always surrounded only by emptiness
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