Keep writing. Try to do a little bit every day, even if the result looks like crap.
ALAN DEAN FOSTERI engage in too many activities already through the actions of my characters.
More Alan Dean Foster Quotes
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Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting.
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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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Don’t try to write to the trend of the moment.
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We’re not a particular species. Check out popular video games.
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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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Wider travels have given me considerably greater insight into how cultural differences affect not only people, but politics and art.
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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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It is always hard when reality intrudes on belief.
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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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There’s certainly more new SF available than when I started writing.
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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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There is nothing in art, in philosophy, or in politics to match the fervor of mutual cooperation among discordant bands of fanatics.
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The universe is full of dead people who lived by assumption.
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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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Getting inside the mind of a terrorist wasn’t difficult at all.
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I enjoy listening to classical music and heavy metal.
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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 have a bad tendency to get rapidly bored with my own material.
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It’s a life of sacrifice. There are rewards, but also a certain degree of sterility.
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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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How much research I have to do depends on the nature of the story. For fantasy, none 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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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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We’re all nothing but unified arrangements of atoms and particles, drifting around.
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Spontaneity is one of the joys of existence, especially if you prepare for it in advance.
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I’ve been writing full-time since 1978.
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