Wider travels have given me considerably greater insight into how cultural differences affect not only people, but politics and art.
ALAN DEAN FOSTERAn apex is always surrounded only by emptiness
More Alan Dean Foster Quotes
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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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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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Besides the mistakes that are pointed out, I love the way readers become involved with the characters.
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I have a bad tendency to get rapidly bored with my own material.
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The universe is full of dead people who lived by assumption.
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When readers start asking about character motivations instead of concentrating on the special effects, it means you’re connecting with them on a personal level.
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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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We’re all nothing but unified arrangements of atoms and particles, drifting around.
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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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Don’t try to write to the trend of the moment.
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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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All I ever wanted to be was a traveler and explorer.
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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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Growing up, I never gave a thought to being a writer.
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In loquaciousness lay insanity.
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