All I ever wanted to be was a traveler and explorer.
ALAN DEAN FOSTERGetting inside the mind of a terrorist wasn’t difficult at all.
More Alan Dean Foster Quotes
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I try to challenge myself as much as possible, as often as possible.
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Advances have fallen, generally, for everything except the biggest potential bestsellers.
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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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Some of it is carefully structured and well-thought-out. That’s where the real danger lies.
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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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Living gives you a better understanding of life.
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We’re all nothing but unified arrangements of atoms and particles, drifting around.
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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 write early in the morning, usually after reading portions of at least half a dozen newspapers on the web.
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Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting.
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When readers start asking about character motivations instead of concentrating on the special effects, it means you’re connecting with them on a personal level.
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I’ve been writing full-time since 1978.
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Even as children, human beings fabricate elaborate revenge fantasies.
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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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The thing all writers do best is find ways to avoid writing.
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The universe is full of dead people who lived by assumption.
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Given all the changes, both economic and technological, SF hasn’t done too badly.
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I hear entire symphonies, oratorios, in my head, but I can’t write a note.
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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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We’re not a particular species. Check out popular video games.
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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’d really like to have been Sir Richard Francis Burton, but it’s the wrong century.
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I have a bad tendency to get rapidly bored with my own material.
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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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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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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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