I enjoy listening to classical music and heavy metal.
ALAN DEAN FOSTEREven as children, human beings fabricate elaborate revenge fantasies.
More Alan Dean Foster Quotes
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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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Getting from page four to page five is more important than spending three weeks getting page four perfect.
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We’re all nothing but unified arrangements of atoms and particles, drifting around.
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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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I see the Jedi mission as giving up a normal life in exchange for protecting the innocent.
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Spontaneity is one of the joys of existence, especially if you prepare for it in advance.
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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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The universe is full of dead people who lived by assumption.
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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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In loquaciousness lay insanity.
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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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Getting inside the mind of a terrorist wasn’t difficult at all.
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Even as children, human beings fabricate elaborate revenge fantasies.
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I hear entire symphonies, oratorios, in my head, but I can’t write a note.
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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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