Advances have fallen, generally, for everything except the biggest potential bestsellers.
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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I have a bad tendency to get rapidly bored with my own material.
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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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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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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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How much research I have to do depends on the nature of the story. For fantasy, none at all.
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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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I’d really like to have been Sir Richard Francis Burton, but it’s the wrong century.
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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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The thing all writers do best is find ways to avoid writing.
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I would hope that my characters have become deeper and more rounded personalities.
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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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Living gives you a better understanding of life.
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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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It is always hard when reality intrudes on belief.
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An apex is always surrounded only by emptiness
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