In one book, CACHALOT, just for my own amusement, every character is based directly on someone I have known.
ALAN DEAN FOSTERI try to challenge myself as much as possible, as often as possible.
More Alan Dean Foster Quotes
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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 would hope that my characters have become deeper and more rounded personalities.
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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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If you’re crazy, there’s two things you can do to make yourself feel better: One is to get yourself cured. The other is to make everyone you have to deal with crazy.
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There’s certainly more new SF available than when I started writing.
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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 engage in too many activities already through the actions of my characters.
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Advances have fallen, generally, for everything except the biggest potential bestsellers.
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The thing all writers do best is find ways to avoid writing.
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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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Don’t try to write to the trend of the moment.
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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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I’d really like to have been Sir Richard Francis Burton, but it’s the wrong century.
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I try to challenge myself as much as possible, as often as possible.
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Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting.
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