I see the Jedi mission as giving up a normal life in exchange for protecting the innocent.
ALAN DEAN FOSTERBesides the mistakes that are pointed out, I love the way readers become involved with the characters.
More Alan Dean Foster Quotes
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I would hope that my characters have become deeper and more rounded personalities.
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I engage in too many activities already through the actions of my characters.
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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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Getting inside the mind of a terrorist wasn’t difficult at all.
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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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Keep writing. Try to do a little bit every day, even if the result looks like crap.
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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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Last year I went to a worldcon for the first time in two decades. I may go again this year.
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I’ve been writing full-time since 1978.
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Dawn was written well before 9/11. People speak a lot today about the banality of evil, but not all evil is banal.
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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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The universe is full of dead people who lived by assumption.
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I enjoy listening to classical music and heavy metal.
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It’s a life of sacrifice. There are rewards, but also a certain degree of sterility.
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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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