I engage in too many activities already through the actions of my characters.
ALAN DEAN FOSTERI write early in the morning, usually after reading portions of at least half a dozen newspapers on the web.
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’ve been writing full-time since 1978.
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The thing all writers do best is find ways to avoid writing.
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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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I see the Jedi mission as giving up a normal life in exchange for protecting the innocent.
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We’re all nothing but unified arrangements of atoms and particles, drifting around.
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I hear entire symphonies, oratorios, in my head, but I can’t write a note.
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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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Spontaneity is one of the joys of existence, especially if you prepare for it in advance.
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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’d really like to have been Sir Richard Francis Burton, but it’s the wrong century.
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An apex is always surrounded only by emptiness
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Don’t try to write to the trend of the moment.
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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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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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