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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.

Alan Dean Foster

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I enjoy listening to classical music and heavy metal.
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I would hope that my characters have become deeper and more rounded personalities.
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Become Character Deep Hope Personality Round
It is always hard when reality intrudes on belief.
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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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Celebrity Century Like People Really Rong
There’s certainly more new SF available than when I started writing.
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I hear entire symphonies, oratorios, in my head, but I can’t write a note.
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Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting.
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Getting inside the mind of a terrorist wasn’t difficult at all.
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All Difficult Get Inside Mind Terrorist
Growing up, I never gave a thought to being a writer.
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Being Explorer Grow Traveler Want Writer
I play basketball and try to go diving at least once a year. I don’t really have hobbies in the traditional sense.
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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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Even as children, human beings fabricate elaborate revenge fantasies.
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Beings Children Elaborate Even Fabricate Human
Getting from page four to page five is more important than spending three weeks getting page four perfect.
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I engage in too many activities already through the actions of my characters.
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Action Activity Already Character Engage Many Though
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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Concentration Connect Level Personal Special Effect
Some of it is carefully structured and well-thought-out. That’s where the real danger lies.
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Given all the changes, both economic and technological, SF hasn’t done too badly.
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All I ever wanted to be was a traveler and explorer.
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All Explorer Traveler Want
I have a bad tendency to get rapidly bored with my own material.
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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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We’re all nothing but unified arrangements of atoms and particles, drifting around.
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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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In one book, CACHALOT, just for my own amusement, every character is based directly on someone I have known.
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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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Already Know Hard Me New Read Rewrite Something
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.
ALAN DEAN FOSTER

Another Better Crazy Cure Feel Make One Thing Yourself
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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Conglomerate Diversity Feel International Made Multimedia Overwhelming Triumph
Besides the mistakes that are pointed out, I love the way readers become involved with the characters.
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