I engage in too many activities already through the actions of my characters.
ALAN DEAN FOSTERSome of it is carefully structured and well-thought-out. That’s where the real danger lies.
More Alan Dean Foster Quotes
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Keep writing. Try to do a little bit every day, even if the result looks like crap.
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Living gives you a better understanding of life.
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Advances have fallen, generally, for everything except the biggest potential bestsellers.
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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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An apex is always surrounded only by emptiness
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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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It is always hard when reality intrudes on belief.
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Getting from page four to page five is more important than spending three weeks getting page four perfect.
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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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Even as children, human beings fabricate elaborate revenge fantasies.
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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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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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It’s a life of sacrifice. There are rewards, but also a certain degree of sterility.
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There’s certainly more new SF available than when I started writing.
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