An apex is always surrounded only by emptiness
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 hear entire symphonies, oratorios, in my head, but I can’t write a note.
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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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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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Living gives you a better understanding of life.
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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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We’re all nothing but unified arrangements of atoms and particles, drifting around.
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The storm hit with all the fury of a woman who’d been dieting for six months, only to discover she’d gained four pounds.
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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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Advances have fallen, generally, for everything except the biggest potential bestsellers.
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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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Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting.
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Don’t try to write to the trend of the moment.
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It is always hard when reality intrudes on belief.
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I’ve been writing full-time since 1978.
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I have a bad tendency to get rapidly bored with my own material.
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