I would hope that my characters have become deeper and more rounded personalities.
ALAN DEAN FOSTERAn apex is always surrounded only by emptiness
More Alan Dean Foster Quotes
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The thing all writers do best is find ways to avoid writing.
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I hear entire symphonies, oratorios, in my head, but I can’t write a note.
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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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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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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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It’s a life of sacrifice. There are rewards, but also a certain degree of sterility.
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Some of it is carefully structured and well-thought-out. That’s where the real danger lies.
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We’re all nothing but unified arrangements of atoms and particles, drifting around.
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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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Wider travels have given me considerably greater insight into how cultural differences affect not only people, but politics and art.
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There’s certainly more new SF available than when I started writing.
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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 try to challenge myself as much as possible, as often as possible.
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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 engage in too many activities already through the actions of my characters.
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