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.
ALAN DEAN FOSTERDawn 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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I’d really like to have been Sir Richard Francis Burton, but it’s the wrong century.
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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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I would hope that my characters have become deeper and more rounded personalities.
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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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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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It’s a life of sacrifice. There are rewards, but also a certain degree of sterility.
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Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting.
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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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Keep writing. Try to do a little bit every day, even if the result looks like crap.
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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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Besides the mistakes that are pointed out, I love the way readers become involved with the characters.
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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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Given all the changes, both economic and technological, SF hasn’t done too badly.
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Getting inside the mind of a terrorist wasn’t difficult at all.
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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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