I try to challenge myself as much as possible, as often as possible.
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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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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Besides the mistakes that are pointed out, I love the way readers become involved with the characters.
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Even as children, human beings fabricate elaborate revenge fantasies.
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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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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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There’s certainly more new SF available than when I started writing.
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I have a bad tendency to get rapidly bored with my own material.
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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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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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The thing all writers do best is find ways to avoid writing.
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Some of it is carefully structured and well-thought-out. That’s where the real danger lies.
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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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Where lies the line between sorcery and science? It is only a matter of terminology, my friend.
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