The storm hit with all the fury of a woman who’d been dieting for six months, only to discover she’d gained four pounds.
ALAN DEAN FOSTERAdvances have fallen, generally, for everything except the biggest potential bestsellers.
More Alan Dean Foster Quotes
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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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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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So rewriting is hard for me. I mean, I already know the story and would rather read something new.
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Given all the changes, both economic and technological, SF hasn’t done too badly.
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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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I have a bad tendency to get rapidly bored with my own material.
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I try to challenge myself as much as possible, as often as possible.
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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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We’re all nothing but unified arrangements of atoms and particles, drifting around.
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The thing all writers do best is find ways to avoid writing.
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All I ever wanted to be was a traveler and explorer.
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Even as children, human beings fabricate elaborate revenge fantasies.
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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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Growing up, I never gave a thought to being a writer.
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Don’t try to write to the trend of the moment.
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