Don’t try to write to the trend of the moment.
ALAN DEAN FOSTERAn apex is always surrounded only by emptiness
More Alan Dean Foster Quotes
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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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Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting.
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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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It’s a life of sacrifice. There are rewards, but also a certain degree of sterility.
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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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Living gives you a better understanding of life.
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Advances have fallen, generally, for everything except the biggest potential bestsellers.
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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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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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Keep writing. Try to do a little bit every day, even if the result looks like crap.
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There’s certainly more new SF available than when I started writing.
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In loquaciousness lay insanity.
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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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The universe is full of dead people who lived by assumption.
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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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