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.
ALAN DEAN FOSTERWe’re all nothing but unified arrangements of atoms and particles, drifting around.
More Alan Dean Foster Quotes
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I enjoy listening to classical music and heavy metal.
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An apex is always surrounded only by emptiness
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Growing up, I never gave a thought to being a writer.
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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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If you’re crazy, there’s two things you can do to make yourself feel better: One is to get yourself cured. The other is to make everyone you have to deal with crazy.
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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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So rewriting is hard for me. I mean, I already know the story and would rather read something new.
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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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Science-fiction allowed me to go places that were otherwise inaccessible, which is why I started reading it.
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Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting.
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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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In loquaciousness lay insanity.
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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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Besides the mistakes that are pointed out, I love the way readers become involved with the characters.
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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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