There’s certainly more new SF available than when I started writing.
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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Given all the changes, both economic and technological, SF hasn’t done too badly.
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I would hope that my characters have become deeper and more rounded personalities.
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Living gives you a better understanding of life.
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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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Growing up, I never gave a thought to being a writer.
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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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It’s a life of sacrifice. There are rewards, but also a certain degree of sterility.
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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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Writing allows me the time to travel and see the world, which is what I always wanted to do.
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We’re all nothing but unified arrangements of atoms and particles, drifting around.
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All I ever wanted to be was a traveler and explorer.
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Wider travels have given me considerably greater insight into how cultural differences affect not only people, but politics and art.
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I’ve been writing full-time since 1978.
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I have a bad tendency to get rapidly bored with my own material.
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