Advances have fallen, generally, for everything except the biggest potential bestsellers.
ALAN DEAN FOSTERThe thing all writers do best is find ways to avoid writing.
More Alan Dean Foster Quotes
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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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It is always hard when reality intrudes on belief.
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We’re all nothing but unified arrangements of atoms and particles, drifting around.
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Enjoying consciousness every now and then for a second or so before splitting up to become bits and pieces of trees and stars and french fries.
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An apex is always surrounded only by emptiness
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We’re not a particular species. Check out popular video games.
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I have a bad tendency to get rapidly bored with my own material.
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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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Writing allows me the time to travel and see the world, which is what I always wanted to do.
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I’ve been writing full-time since 1978.
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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 would hope that my characters have become deeper and more rounded personalities.
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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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Living gives you a better understanding of life.
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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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