I play basketball and try to go diving at least once a year. I don’t really have hobbies in the traditional sense.
ALAN DEAN FOSTERIf 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.
More Alan Dean Foster Quotes
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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’d really like to have been Sir Richard Francis Burton, but it’s the wrong century.
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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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Growing up, I never gave a thought to being a writer.
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Keep writing. Try to do a little bit every day, even if the result looks like crap.
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I would hope that my characters have become deeper and more rounded personalities.
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In loquaciousness lay insanity.
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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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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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Don’t try to write to the trend of the moment.
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It’s a life of sacrifice. There are rewards, but also a certain degree of sterility.
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Where lies the line between sorcery and science? It is only a matter of terminology, my friend.
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I try to challenge myself as much as possible, as often as possible.
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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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Even as children, human beings fabricate elaborate revenge fantasies.
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