Besides the mistakes that are pointed out, I love the way readers become involved with the characters.
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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Given all the changes, both economic and technological, SF hasn’t done too badly.
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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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Advances have fallen, generally, for everything except the biggest potential bestsellers.
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Don’t try to write to the trend of the moment.
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It’s a life of sacrifice. There are rewards, but also a certain degree of sterility.
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An apex is always surrounded only by emptiness
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Even as children, human beings fabricate elaborate revenge fantasies.
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I would hope that my characters have become deeper and more rounded personalities.
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Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting.
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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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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’ve been writing full-time since 1978.
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All I ever wanted to be was a traveler and explorer.
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It is always hard when reality intrudes on belief.
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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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