That means there’s also more bad SF available. Whether there is also more good is a matter for future historians of the field.
ALAN DEAN FOSTERIt is always hard when reality intrudes on belief.
More Alan Dean Foster Quotes
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Don’t try to write to the trend of the moment.
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The universe is full of dead people who lived by assumption.
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I would hope that my characters have become deeper and more rounded personalities.
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So rewriting is hard for me. I mean, I already know the story and would rather read something new.
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Advances have fallen, generally, for everything except the biggest potential bestsellers.
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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 have a bad tendency to get rapidly bored with my own material.
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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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It’s a life of sacrifice. There are rewards, but also a certain degree of sterility.
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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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I engage in too many activities already through the actions of my characters.
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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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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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How much research I have to do depends on the nature of the story. For fantasy, none at all.
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Getting inside the mind of a terrorist wasn’t difficult at all.
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