I write early in the morning, usually after reading portions of at least half a dozen newspapers on the web.
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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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Even as children, human beings fabricate elaborate revenge fantasies.
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Living gives you a better understanding of life.
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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 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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Getting from page four to page five is more important than spending three weeks getting page four perfect.
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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’d really like to have been Sir Richard Francis Burton, but it’s the wrong century.
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An apex is always surrounded only by emptiness
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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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How much research I have to do depends on the nature of the story. For fantasy, none at all.
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Given all the changes, both economic and technological, SF hasn’t done too badly.
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Getting inside the mind of a terrorist wasn’t difficult at all.
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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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I try to challenge myself as much as possible, as often as possible.
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