I have a bad tendency to get rapidly bored with my own material.
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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Given all the changes, both economic and technological, SF hasn’t done too badly.
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I engage in too many activities already through the actions of my characters.
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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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Don’t try to write to the trend of the moment.
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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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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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We’re all nothing but unified arrangements of atoms and particles, drifting around.
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Growing up, I never gave a thought to being a writer.
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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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I enjoy listening to classical music and heavy metal.
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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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I’d really like to have been Sir Richard Francis Burton, but it’s the wrong century.
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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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I’ve been writing full-time since 1978.
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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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