Growing up, I never gave a thought to being a writer.
ALAN DEAN FOSTERI engage in too many activities already through the actions of my characters.
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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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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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Don’t try to write to the trend of the moment.
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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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That means there’s also more bad SF available. Whether there is also more good is a matter for future historians of the field.
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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 universe is full of dead people who lived by assumption.
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I’ve been writing full-time since 1978.
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We’re all nothing but unified arrangements of atoms and particles, drifting around.
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I try to challenge myself as much as possible, as often as possible.
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It is always hard when reality intrudes on belief.
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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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I hear entire symphonies, oratorios, in my head, but I can’t write a note.
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I have a bad tendency to get rapidly bored with my own material.
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We’re not a particular species. Check out popular video games.
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