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All I ever wanted to be was a traveler and explorer.

Alan Dean Foster

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Science-fiction allowed me to go places that were otherwise inaccessible, which is why I started reading it.
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Already Inaccessible Otherwise Read Start
I’ve been writing full-time since 1978.
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Ful Long Since Time Write
Keep writing. Try to do a little bit every day, even if the result looks like crap.
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Bit Crap Day Every Keep Little Look Result Write
Writing allows me the time to travel and see the world, which is what I always wanted to do.
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Allow Always Time Travel Want World Write
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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Before Consciousness Enjoy French-fries Piece Second Split Star Tree
We’re not a particular species. Check out popular video games.
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Check Game Paricular Poepilar Spevies Video
Besides the mistakes that are pointed out, I love the way readers become involved with the characters.
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Become Besides Character Involve Love Mistake Reader Way
I have a bad tendency to get rapidly bored with my own material.
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Bad Bore Material Own Rapidly Tendency
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
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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Business Convention Fantasy Make Purpose Usually World Year
I try to challenge myself as much as possible, as often as possible.
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Challenge Much Myself Often Possible Try
Some of it is carefully structured and well-thought-out. That’s where the real danger lies.
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Carefully Danger Real Some Structure Thought Well
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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Another Better Crazy Cure Feel Make One Thing Yourself
Given all the changes, both economic and technological, SF hasn’t done too badly.
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Badly Change Economic Give Technology
It is always hard when reality intrudes on belief.
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Always Belief Hard Intrude Reality
Don’t try to write to the trend of the moment.
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Moment Trend Try Write
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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Available Certainly More New Start Write
Living gives you a better understanding of life.
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Better Give Life Living Understanding
In one book, CACHALOT, just for my own amusement, every character is based directly on someone I have known.
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Amusement Base Book Cachalot Character Directly Every Known Someone
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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Available Bad Future Historian Hoof Matte More
Getting inside the mind of a terrorist wasn’t difficult at all.
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All Difficult Get Inside Mind Terrorist
How much research I have to do depends on the nature of the story. For fantasy, none at all.
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All Depend Fantasy Nature None Research Story
The universe is full of dead people who lived by assumption.
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Assumption Dead Full Live People Universe
Spontaneity is one of the joys of existence, especially if you prepare for it in advance.
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Advance Especial Existence Joy One Prepare Spontaneous
The thing all writers do best is find ways to avoid writing.
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Avoid Find Think Way Write Writer
I enjoy listening to classical music and heavy metal.
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Classical Enjoy heavy Listen Metal

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