I play basketball and try to go diving at least once a year. I don’t really have hobbies in the traditional sense.
ALAN DEAN FOSTERAn apex is always surrounded only by emptiness
More Alan Dean Foster Quotes
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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’d really like to have been Sir Richard Francis Burton, but it’s the wrong century.
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Even as children, human beings fabricate elaborate revenge fantasies.
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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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It’s a life of sacrifice. There are rewards, but also a certain degree of sterility.
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Science-fiction allowed me to go places that were otherwise inaccessible, which is why I started reading it.
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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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Given all the changes, both economic and technological, SF hasn’t done too badly.
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I have a bad tendency to get rapidly bored with my own material.
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Spontaneity is one of the joys of existence, especially if you prepare for it in advance.
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Besides the mistakes that are pointed out, I love the way readers become involved with the characters.
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The thing all writers do best is find ways to avoid writing.
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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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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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Keep writing. Try to do a little bit every day, even if the result looks like crap.
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