I try to challenge myself as much as possible, as often as possible.
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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Wider travels have given me considerably greater insight into how cultural differences affect not only people, but politics and art.
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Growing up, I never gave a thought to being a writer.
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An apex is always surrounded only by emptiness
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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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Advances have fallen, generally, for everything except the biggest potential bestsellers.
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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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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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Writing allows me the time to travel and see the world, which is what I always wanted to do.
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All I ever wanted to be was a traveler and explorer.
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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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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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I hear entire symphonies, oratorios, in my head, but I can’t write a note.
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Given all the changes, both economic and technological, SF hasn’t done too badly.
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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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