The universe is full of dead people who lived by assumption.
ALAN DEAN FOSTERWe’re all nothing but unified arrangements of atoms and particles, drifting around.
More Alan Dean Foster Quotes
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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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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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In loquaciousness lay insanity.
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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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An apex is always surrounded only by emptiness
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I hear entire symphonies, oratorios, in my head, but I can’t write a note.
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Keep writing. Try to do a little bit every day, even if the result looks like crap.
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Advances have fallen, generally, for everything except the biggest potential bestsellers.
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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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It is always hard when reality intrudes on belief.
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We’re not a particular species. Check out popular video games.
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Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting.
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I’ve been writing full-time since 1978.
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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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Last year I went to a worldcon for the first time in two decades. I may go again this year.
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