Even as children, human beings fabricate elaborate revenge fantasies.
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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I engage in too many activities already through the actions of my characters.
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Advances have fallen, generally, for everything except the biggest potential bestsellers.
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Growing up, I never gave a thought to being a writer.
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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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There’s certainly more new SF available than when I started writing.
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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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We’re all nothing but unified arrangements of atoms and particles, drifting around.
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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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In one book, CACHALOT, just for my own amusement, every character is based directly on someone I have known.
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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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The universe is full of dead people who lived by assumption.
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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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All I ever wanted to be was a traveler and explorer.
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I would hope that my characters have become deeper and more rounded personalities.
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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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