I’ve been writing full-time since 1978.
ALAN DEAN FOSTERI have a bad tendency to get rapidly bored with my own material.
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I engage in too many activities already through the actions of my characters.
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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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I try to challenge myself as much as possible, as often as possible.
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We’re all nothing but unified arrangements of atoms and particles, drifting around.
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An apex is always surrounded only by emptiness
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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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It is always hard when reality intrudes on belief.
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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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Even as children, human beings fabricate elaborate revenge fantasies.
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Growing up, I never gave a thought to being a writer.
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The universe is full of dead people who lived by assumption.
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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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Living gives you a better understanding of life.
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In loquaciousness lay insanity.
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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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