Don’t try to write to the trend of the moment.
ALAN DEAN FOSTERI have a bad tendency to get rapidly bored with my own material.
More Alan Dean Foster Quotes
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I would hope that my characters have become deeper and more rounded personalities.
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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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Advances have fallen, generally, for everything except the biggest potential bestsellers.
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Living gives you a better understanding of life.
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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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In loquaciousness lay insanity.
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Getting inside the mind of a terrorist wasn’t difficult at all.
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I hear entire symphonies, oratorios, in my head, but I can’t write a note.
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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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The universe is full of dead people who lived by assumption.
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There’s certainly more new SF available than when I started writing.
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An apex is always surrounded only by emptiness
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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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Growing up, I never gave a thought to being a writer.
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I see the Jedi mission as giving up a normal life in exchange for protecting the innocent.
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