Don’t try to write to the trend of the moment.
ALAN DEAN FOSTEREven as children, human beings fabricate elaborate revenge fantasies.
More Alan Dean Foster Quotes
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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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Keep writing. Try to do a little bit every day, even if the result looks like crap.
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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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The storm hit with all the fury of a woman who’d been dieting for six months, only to discover she’d gained four pounds.
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Even as children, human beings fabricate elaborate revenge fantasies.
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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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Growing up, I never gave a thought to being a writer.
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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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The thing all writers do best is find ways to avoid writing.
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There is nothing in art, in philosophy, or in politics to match the fervor of mutual cooperation among discordant bands of fanatics.
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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 hear entire symphonies, oratorios, in my head, but I can’t write a note.
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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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Last year I went to a worldcon for the first time in two decades. I may go again this year.
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Advances have fallen, generally, for everything except the biggest potential bestsellers.
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