I hear entire symphonies, oratorios, in my head, but I can’t write a note.
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.
More Alan Dean Foster Quotes
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I have a bad tendency to get rapidly bored with my own material.
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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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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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Even as children, human beings fabricate elaborate revenge fantasies.
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We’re not a particular species. Check out popular video games.
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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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There’s certainly more new SF available than when I started writing.
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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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I usually do one con a year as a GoH and try to make the World Fantasy Convention for business purposes.
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The thing all writers do best is find ways to avoid writing.
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I try to challenge myself as much as possible, as often as possible.
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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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Don’t try to write to the trend of the moment.
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Enjoying consciousness every now and then for a second or so before splitting up to become bits and pieces of trees and stars and french fries.
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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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