I have a bad tendency to get rapidly bored with my own material.
ALAN DEAN FOSTERKeep writing. Try to do a little bit every day, even if the result looks like crap.
More Alan Dean Foster Quotes
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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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Last year I went to a worldcon for the first time in two decades. I may go again this year.
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The universe is full of dead people who lived by assumption.
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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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Wider travels have given me considerably greater insight into how cultural differences affect not only people, but politics and art.
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I hear entire symphonies, oratorios, in my head, but I can’t write a note.
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Given all the changes, both economic and technological, SF hasn’t done too badly.
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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 would hope that my characters have become deeper and more rounded personalities.
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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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Where lies the line between sorcery and science? It is only a matter of terminology, my friend.
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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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Keep writing. Try to do a little bit every day, even if the result looks like crap.
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That means there’s also more bad SF available. Whether there is also more good is a matter for future historians of the field.
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