I try to challenge myself as much as possible, as often as possible.
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More Alan Dean Foster Quotes
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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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I have a bad tendency to get rapidly bored with my own material.
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Advances have fallen, generally, for everything except the biggest potential bestsellers.
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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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In one book, CACHALOT, just for my own amusement, every character is based directly on someone I have known.
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We’re not a particular species. Check out popular video games.
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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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In loquaciousness lay insanity.
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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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Some of it is carefully structured and well-thought-out. That’s where the real danger lies.
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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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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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Writing allows me the time to travel and see the world, which is what I always wanted to do.
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Getting inside the mind of a terrorist wasn’t difficult at all.
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Don’t try to write to the trend of the moment.
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