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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I’ve been writing full-time since 1978.
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Even as children, human beings fabricate elaborate revenge fantasies.
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I have a bad tendency to get rapidly bored with my own material.
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In loquaciousness lay insanity.
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An apex is always surrounded only by emptiness
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When readers start asking about character motivations instead of concentrating on the special effects, it means you’re connecting with them on a personal level.
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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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We’re not a particular species. Check out popular video games.
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Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting.
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Living gives you a better understanding of life.
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All I ever wanted to be was a traveler and explorer.
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The thing all writers do best is find ways to avoid writing.
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I would hope that my characters have become deeper and more rounded personalities.
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How much research I have to do depends on the nature of the story. For fantasy, none at all.
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I hear entire symphonies, oratorios, in my head, but I can’t write a note.
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