I’ve been writing full-time since 1978.
ALAN DEAN FOSTERI enjoy listening to classical music and heavy metal.
More Alan Dean Foster Quotes
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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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Wider travels have given me considerably greater insight into how cultural differences affect not only people, but politics and art.
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Don’t try to write to the trend of the moment.
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There is nothing in art, in philosophy, or in politics to match the fervor of mutual cooperation among discordant bands of fanatics.
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Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting.
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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 see the Jedi mission as giving up a normal life in exchange for protecting the innocent.
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The universe is full of dead people who lived by assumption.
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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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I have a bad tendency to get rapidly bored with my own material.
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It is always hard when reality intrudes on belief.
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I engage in too many activities already through the actions of my characters.
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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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Writing allows me the time to travel and see the world, which is what I always wanted to do.
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