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.
ALAN DEAN FOSTERWhen readers start asking about character motivations instead of concentrating on the special effects, it means you’re connecting with them on a personal level.
More Alan Dean Foster Quotes
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Don’t try to write to the trend of the moment.
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All I ever wanted to be was a traveler and explorer.
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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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Science-fiction allowed me to go places that were otherwise inaccessible, which is why I started reading it.
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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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Given all the changes, both economic and technological, SF hasn’t done too badly.
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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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There’s certainly more new SF available than when I started writing.
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We’re not a particular species. Check out popular video games.
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Living gives you a better understanding of life.
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Spontaneity is one of the joys of existence, especially if you prepare for it in advance.
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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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Even as children, human beings fabricate elaborate revenge fantasies.
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We’re all nothing but unified arrangements of atoms and particles, drifting around.
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