Besides the mistakes that are pointed out, I love the way readers become involved with the characters.
ALAN DEAN FOSTERGiven all the changes, both economic and technological, SF hasn’t done too badly.
More Alan Dean Foster Quotes
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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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Advances have fallen, generally, for everything except the biggest potential bestsellers.
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In loquaciousness lay insanity.
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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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I write early in the morning, usually after reading portions of at least half a dozen newspapers on the web.
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Living gives you a better understanding of life.
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An apex is always surrounded only by emptiness
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Even as children, human beings fabricate elaborate revenge fantasies.
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It’s a life of sacrifice. There are rewards, but also a certain degree of sterility.
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I have a bad tendency to get rapidly bored with my own material.
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I try to challenge myself as much as possible, as often as possible.
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I engage in too many activities already through the actions of my characters.
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It is always hard when reality intrudes on belief.
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Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting.
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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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