Growing up, I never gave a thought to being a writer.
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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I’d really like to have been Sir Richard Francis Burton, but it’s the wrong century.
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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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I have a bad tendency to get rapidly bored with my own material.
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Advances have fallen, generally, for everything except the biggest potential bestsellers.
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Getting inside the mind of a terrorist wasn’t difficult at all.
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In loquaciousness lay insanity.
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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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An apex is always surrounded only by emptiness
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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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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 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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Wider travels have given me considerably greater insight into how cultural differences affect not only people, but politics and art.
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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 see the Jedi mission as giving up a normal life in exchange for protecting the innocent.
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It is always hard when reality intrudes on belief.
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