Advances have fallen, generally, for everything except the biggest potential bestsellers.
ALAN DEAN FOSTERGetting inside the mind of a terrorist wasn’t difficult at all.
More Alan Dean Foster Quotes
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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’ve been writing full-time since 1978.
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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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It is always hard when reality intrudes on belief.
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The universe is full of dead people who lived by assumption.
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I engage in too many activities already through the actions of my characters.
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Living gives you a better understanding of life.
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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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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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Spontaneity is one of the joys of existence, especially if you prepare for it in advance.
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An apex is always surrounded only by emptiness
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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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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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So rewriting is hard for me. I mean, I already know the story and would rather read something new.
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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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