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ALAN DEAN FOSTERI engage in too many activities already through the actions of my characters.
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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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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’d really like to have been Sir Richard Francis Burton, but it’s the wrong century.
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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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Getting from page four to page five is more important than spending three weeks getting page four perfect.
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The universe is full of dead people who lived by assumption.
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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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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 engage in too many activities already through the actions of my characters.
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I have a bad tendency to get rapidly bored with my own material.
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Living gives you a better understanding of life.
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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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Where lies the line between sorcery and science? It is only a matter of terminology, my friend.
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Getting inside the mind of a terrorist wasn’t difficult at all.
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I try to challenge myself as much as possible, as often as possible.
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There’s certainly more new SF available than when I started writing.
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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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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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How much research I have to do depends on the nature of the story. For fantasy, none at all.
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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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Last year I went to a worldcon for the first time in two decades. I may go again this year.
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The thing all writers do best is find ways to avoid writing.
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Science-fiction allowed me to go places that were otherwise inaccessible, which is why I started reading it.
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We’re all nothing but unified arrangements of atoms and particles, drifting around.
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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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