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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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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
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
Dawn was written well before 9/11. People speak a lot today about the banality of evil, but not all evil is banal.
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Banal Banality Before Drawn Evil People Speak Today Write
The universe is full of dead people who lived by assumption.
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Assumption Dead Full Live People Universe
Living gives you a better understanding of life.
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Better Give Life Living Understanding
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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Conglomerate Diversity Feel International Made Multimedia Overwhelming Triumph
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’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 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 enjoy listening to classical music and heavy metal.
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Classical Enjoy heavy Listen Metal
There’s certainly more new SF available than when I started writing.
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Available Certainly More New Start 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
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
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
The thing all writers do best is find ways to avoid writing.
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Avoid Find Think Way Write Writer
In loquaciousness lay insanity.
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Insanity Lay
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
I have a bad tendency to get rapidly bored with my own material.
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Bad Bore Material Own Rapidly Tendency
We’re not a particular species. Check out popular video games.
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Check Game Paricular Poepilar Spevies Video
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
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
Growing up, I never gave a thought to being a writer.
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Being Explorer Grow Traveler Want Writer
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
Wider travels have given me considerably greater insight into how cultural differences affect not only people, but politics and art.
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All I ever wanted to be was a traveler and explorer.
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All Explorer Traveler Want
I write early in the morning, usually after reading portions of at least half a dozen newspapers on the web.
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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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Amusement Base Book Cachalot Character Directly Every Known Someone

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