Wider travels have given me considerably greater insight into how cultural differences affect not only people, but politics and art.
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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We’re all nothing but unified arrangements of atoms and particles, drifting around.
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Don’t try to write to the trend of the moment.
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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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I have a bad tendency to get rapidly bored with my own material.
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Given all the changes, both economic and technological, SF hasn’t done too badly.
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All I ever wanted to be was a traveler and explorer.
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I enjoy listening to classical music and heavy metal.
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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’s a life of sacrifice. There are rewards, but also a certain degree of sterility.
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The thing all writers do best is find ways to avoid writing.
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Spontaneity is one of the joys of existence, especially if you prepare for it in advance.
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Advances have fallen, generally, for everything except the biggest potential bestsellers.
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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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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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The universe is full of dead people who lived by assumption.
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