Don’t try to write to the trend of the moment.
ALAN DEAN FOSTERIt is always hard when reality intrudes on belief.
More Alan Dean Foster Quotes
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We’re all nothing but unified arrangements of atoms and particles, drifting around.
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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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Writing allows me the time to travel and see the world, which is what I always wanted to do.
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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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How much research I have to do depends on the nature of the story. For fantasy, none at all.
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I have a bad tendency to get rapidly bored with my own material.
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Advances have fallen, generally, for everything except the biggest potential bestsellers.
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Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting.
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I usually do one con a year as a GoH and try to make the World Fantasy Convention for business purposes.
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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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Given all the changes, both economic and technological, SF hasn’t done too badly.
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Last year I went to a worldcon for the first time in two decades. I may go again this year.
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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’d really like to have been Sir Richard Francis Burton, but it’s the wrong century.
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Getting inside the mind of a terrorist wasn’t difficult at all.
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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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I’ve been writing full-time since 1978.
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Even as children, human beings fabricate elaborate revenge fantasies.
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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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I engage in too many activities already through the actions of my characters.
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The thing all writers do best is find ways to avoid writing.
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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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All I ever wanted to be was a traveler and explorer.
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Enjoying consciousness every now and then for a second or so before splitting up to become bits and pieces of trees and stars and french fries.
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I see the Jedi mission as giving up a normal life in exchange for protecting the innocent.
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There’s certainly more new SF available than when I started writing.
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