Advances have fallen, generally, for everything except the biggest potential bestsellers.
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It is always hard when reality intrudes on belief.
More Alan Dean Foster Quotes
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Advances have fallen, generally, for everything except the biggest potential bestsellers.
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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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Getting inside the mind of a terrorist wasn’t difficult at all.
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I hear entire symphonies, oratorios, in my head, but I can’t write a note.
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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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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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In one book, CACHALOT, just for my own amusement, every character is based directly on someone I have known.
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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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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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Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting.
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The universe is full of dead people who lived by assumption.
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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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I would hope that my characters have become deeper and more rounded personalities.
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Growing up, I never gave a thought to being a writer.
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Don’t try to write to the trend of the moment.
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