I hear entire symphonies, oratorios, in my head, but I can’t write a note.
ALAN DEAN FOSTERAll I ever wanted to be was a traveler and explorer.
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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In one book, CACHALOT, just for my own amusement, every character is based directly on someone I have known.
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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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Writing allows me the time to travel and see the world, which is what I always wanted to do.
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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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Getting inside the mind of a terrorist wasn’t difficult at all.
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We’re not a particular species. Check out popular video games.
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Spontaneity is one of the joys of existence, especially if you prepare for it in advance.
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We’re all nothing but unified arrangements of atoms and particles, drifting around.
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An apex is always surrounded only by emptiness
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I try to challenge myself as much as possible, as often as possible.
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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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Where lies the line between sorcery and science? It is only a matter of terminology, my friend.
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How much research I have to do depends on the nature of the story. For fantasy, none at all.
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All I ever wanted to be was a traveler and explorer.
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