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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In loquaciousness lay insanity.
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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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Growing up, I never gave a thought to being a writer.
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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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I enjoy listening to classical music and heavy metal.
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I hear entire symphonies, oratorios, in my head, but I can’t write a note.
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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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Last year I went to a worldcon for the first time in two decades. I may go again this year.
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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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Where lies the line between sorcery and science? It is only a matter of terminology, my friend.
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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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When readers start asking about character motivations instead of concentrating on the special effects, it means you’re connecting with them on a personal level.
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Getting inside the mind of a terrorist wasn’t difficult at all.
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We’re all nothing but unified arrangements of atoms and particles, drifting around.
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