I would hope that my characters have become deeper and more rounded personalities.
ALAN DEAN FOSTERThat means there’s also more bad SF available. Whether there is also more good is a matter for future historians of the field.
More Alan Dean Foster Quotes
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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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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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It’s a life of sacrifice. There are rewards, but also a certain degree of sterility.
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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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Getting from page four to page five is more important than spending three weeks getting page four perfect.
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I have a bad tendency to get rapidly bored with my own material.
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I hear entire symphonies, oratorios, in my head, but I can’t write a note.
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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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Dawn was written well before 9/11. People speak a lot today about the banality of evil, but not all evil is banal.
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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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I write early in the morning, usually after reading portions of at least half a dozen newspapers on the web.
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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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Where lies the line between sorcery and science? It is only a matter of terminology, my friend.
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I enjoy listening to classical music and heavy metal.
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Advances have fallen, generally, for everything except the biggest potential bestsellers.
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