I hear entire symphonies, oratorios, in my head, but I can’t write a note.
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More Alan Dean Foster Quotes
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The universe is full of dead people who lived by assumption.
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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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Science-fiction allowed me to go places that were otherwise inaccessible, which is why I started reading it.
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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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In one book, CACHALOT, just for my own amusement, every character is based directly on someone I have known.
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Where lies the line between sorcery and science? It is only a matter of terminology, my friend.
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Even as children, human beings fabricate elaborate revenge fantasies.
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There’s certainly more new SF available than when I started writing.
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Don’t try to write to the trend of the moment.
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I’ve been writing full-time since 1978.
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Advances have fallen, generally, for everything except the biggest potential bestsellers.
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It’s a life of sacrifice. There are rewards, but also a certain degree of sterility.
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Spontaneity is one of the joys of existence, especially if you prepare for it in advance.
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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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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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We’re all nothing but unified arrangements of atoms and particles, drifting around.
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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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That means there’s also more bad SF available. Whether there is also more good is a matter for future historians of the field.
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Getting inside the mind of a terrorist wasn’t difficult at all.
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An apex is always surrounded only by emptiness
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I enjoy listening to classical music and heavy metal.
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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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I see the Jedi mission as giving up a normal life in exchange for protecting the innocent.
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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.
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