Keep writing. Try to do a little bit every day, even if the result looks like crap.
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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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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In loquaciousness lay insanity.
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I see the Jedi mission as giving up a normal life in exchange for protecting the innocent.
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An apex is always surrounded only by emptiness
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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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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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I try to challenge myself as much as possible, as often as possible.
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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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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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In one book, CACHALOT, just for my own amusement, every character is based directly on someone I have known.
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So rewriting is hard for me. I mean, I already know the story and would rather read something new.
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Getting inside the mind of a terrorist wasn’t difficult at all.
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I have a bad tendency to get rapidly bored with my own material.
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We’re not a particular species. Check out popular video games.
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The thing all writers do best is find ways to avoid writing.
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