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.
ALAN DEAN FOSTERGetting inside the mind of a terrorist wasn’t difficult at all.
More Alan Dean Foster Quotes
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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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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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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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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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Wider travels have given me considerably greater insight into how cultural differences affect not only people, but politics and art.
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The thing all writers do best is find ways to avoid writing.
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I enjoy listening to classical music and heavy metal.
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I would hope that my characters have become deeper and more rounded personalities.
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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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I engage in too many activities already through the actions of my characters.
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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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We’re all nothing but unified arrangements of atoms and particles, drifting around.
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Given all the changes, both economic and technological, SF hasn’t done too badly.
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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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