Given all the changes, both economic and technological, SF hasn’t done too badly.
ALAN DEAN FOSTERI engage in too many activities already through the actions of my characters.
More Alan Dean Foster Quotes
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Besides the mistakes that are pointed out, I love the way readers become involved with the characters.
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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 would hope that my characters have become deeper and more rounded personalities.
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We’re all nothing but unified arrangements of atoms and particles, drifting around.
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Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting.
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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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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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I write early in the morning, usually after reading portions of at least half a dozen newspapers on the web.
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Growing up, I never gave a thought to being a writer.
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Advances have fallen, generally, for everything except the biggest potential bestsellers.
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Dawn was written well before 9/11. People speak a lot today about the banality of evil, but not all evil is banal.
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Last year I went to a worldcon for the first time in two decades. I may go again this year.
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Getting inside the mind of a terrorist wasn’t difficult at all.
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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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I have a bad tendency to get rapidly bored with my own material.
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