Given all the changes, both economic and technological, SF hasn’t done too badly.
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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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 engage in too many activities already through the actions of my characters.
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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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Getting inside the mind of a terrorist wasn’t difficult at all.
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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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I write early in the morning, usually after reading portions of at least half a dozen newspapers on the web.
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Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting.
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Science-fiction allowed me to go places that were otherwise inaccessible, which is why I started reading it.
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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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Living gives you a better understanding of life.
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Spontaneity is one of the joys of existence, especially if you prepare for it in advance.
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The thing all writers do best is find ways to avoid writing.
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All I ever wanted to be was a traveler and explorer.
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