Living gives you a better understanding of life.
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 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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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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We’re not a particular species. Check out popular video games.
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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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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’ve been writing full-time since 1978.
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Given all the changes, both economic and technological, SF hasn’t done too badly.
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An apex is always surrounded only by emptiness
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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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I’d really like to have been Sir Richard Francis Burton, but it’s the wrong century.
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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 write early in the morning, usually after reading portions of at least half a dozen newspapers on the web.
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I have a bad tendency to get rapidly bored with my own material.
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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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