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

Alan Dean Foster

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Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting.
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Better Chaos Freedom Just Light
The storm hit with all the fury of a woman who’d been dieting for six months, only to discover she’d gained four pounds.
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Been Diet Discover Fury Gain Hit Month Pound Six Storm Women
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
Where lies the line between sorcery and science? It is only a matter of terminology, my friend.
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Between Friend Line Matter Science Sorcery Terminology
Given all the changes, both economic and technological, SF hasn’t done too badly.
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Badly Change Economic Give Technology
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
The thing all writers do best is find ways to avoid writing.
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Avoid Find Think Way Write Writer
I would hope that my characters have become deeper and more rounded personalities.
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Become Character Deep Hope Personality Round
There’s certainly more new SF available than when I started writing.
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Available Certainly More New Start 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
I see the Jedi mission as giving up a normal life in exchange for protecting the innocent.
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exchange Give Innocent Life Normal People Protect See
Growing up, I never gave a thought to being a writer.
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Being Explorer Grow Traveler Want Writer
I try to challenge myself as much as possible, as often as possible.
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Challenge Much Myself Often Possible Try
Getting from page four to page five is more important than spending three weeks getting page four perfect.
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Four Get Important More Page Perfect Spend Week
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
Living gives you a better understanding of life.
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Better Give Life Living Understanding
Even as children, human beings fabricate elaborate revenge fantasies.
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Beings Children Elaborate Even Fabricate Human
Wider travels have given me considerably greater insight into how cultural differences affect not only people, but politics and art.
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Art Culture Difference Wide Politics Travel
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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Ask Band Character Concentrate Discord Motivation Reader Start
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
I have a bad tendency to get rapidly bored with my own material.
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Bad Bore Material Own Rapidly Tendency
I’ve been writing full-time since 1978.
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Ful Long Since Time Write
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
Advances have fallen, generally, for everything except the biggest potential bestsellers.
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Advantage Bestsellers Biggest Everything Except Fallen Generally Potential
We’re all nothing but unified arrangements of atoms and particles, drifting around.
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Around Arrangement Atom Drift Enjoy Nothing Particle Unfile
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
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

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