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.
ALAN DEAN FOSTEREven as children, human beings fabricate elaborate revenge fantasies.
More Alan Dean Foster Quotes
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I engage in too many activities already through the actions of my 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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I would hope that my characters have become deeper and more rounded personalities.
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I play basketball and try to go diving at least once a year. I don’t really have hobbies in the traditional sense.
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Living gives you a better understanding of life.
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I have a bad tendency to get rapidly bored with my own material.
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Advances have fallen, generally, for everything except the biggest potential bestsellers.
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I’ve been writing full-time since 1978.
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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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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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It’s a life of sacrifice. There are rewards, but also a certain degree of sterility.
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I enjoy listening to classical music and heavy metal.
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All I ever wanted to be was a traveler and explorer.
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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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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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Growing up, I never gave a thought to being a writer.
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In loquaciousness lay insanity.
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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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So rewriting is hard for me. I mean, I already know the story and would rather read something new.
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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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Writing allows me the time to travel and see the world, which is what I always wanted to do.
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An apex is always surrounded only by emptiness
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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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Getting inside the mind of a terrorist wasn’t difficult at all.
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We’re all nothing but unified arrangements of atoms and particles, drifting around.
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I try to challenge myself as much as possible, as often as possible.
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