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I play basketball and try to go diving at least once a year. I don’t really have hobbies in the traditional sense.

Alan Dean Foster

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There’s certainly more new SF available than when I started writing.
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Available Certainly More New Start Write
I enjoy listening to classical music and heavy metal.
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Classical Enjoy heavy Listen Metal
The thing all writers do best is find ways to avoid writing.
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Avoid Find Think Way Write Writer
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
Don’t try to write to the trend of the moment.
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I write early in the morning, usually after reading portions of at least half a dozen newspapers on the web.
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Living gives you a better understanding of life.
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Better Give Life Living Understanding
Getting inside the mind of a terrorist wasn’t difficult at all.
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All Difficult Get Inside Mind Terrorist
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
Given all the changes, both economic and technological, SF hasn’t done too badly.
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Badly Change Economic Give Technology
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
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 engage in too many activities already through the actions of my characters.
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Action Activity Already Character Engage Many Though
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
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
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
Growing up, I never gave a thought to being a writer.
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Being Explorer Grow Traveler Want Writer
It is always hard when reality intrudes on belief.
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Always Belief Hard Intrude Reality
Last year I went to a worldcon for the first time in two decades. I may go again this year.
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Decade Last Went Worldcon Year
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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Basketball Divide Hobby Least Once Play Traditional Year
I hear entire symphonies, oratorios, in my head, but I can’t write a note.
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Entire Head Note Oratorios Symphony Write
In loquaciousness lay insanity.
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Insanity Lay
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 would hope that my characters have become deeper and more rounded personalities.
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Become Character Deep Hope Personality Round
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
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
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

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