Besides the mistakes that are pointed out, I love the way readers become involved with the characters.
ALAN DEAN FOSTERI see the Jedi mission as giving up a normal life in exchange for protecting the innocent.
More Alan Dean Foster Quotes
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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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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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An apex is always surrounded only by emptiness
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Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting.
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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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I have a bad tendency to get rapidly bored with my own material.
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I enjoy listening to classical music and heavy metal.
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Last year I went to a worldcon for the first time in two decades. I may go again this year.
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I engage in too many activities already through the actions of my characters.
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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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In loquaciousness lay insanity.
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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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If you’re crazy, there’s two things you can do to make yourself feel better: One is to get yourself cured. The other is to make everyone you have to deal with crazy.
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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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I try to challenge myself as much as possible, as often as possible.
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