Dawn was written well before 9/11. People speak a lot today about the banality of evil, but not all evil is banal.
ALAN DEAN FOSTERIn loquaciousness lay insanity.
More Alan Dean Foster Quotes
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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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So rewriting is hard for me. I mean, I already know the story and would rather read something new.
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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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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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It’s a life of sacrifice. There are rewards, but also a certain degree of sterility.
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Advances have fallen, generally, for everything except the biggest potential bestsellers.
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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 one book, CACHALOT, just for my own amusement, every character is based directly on someone I have known.
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There’s certainly more new SF available than when I started writing.
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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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Writing allows me the time to travel and see the world, which is what I always wanted to do.
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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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Science-fiction allowed me to go places that were otherwise inaccessible, which is why I started reading it.
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Getting inside the mind of a terrorist wasn’t difficult at all.
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Don’t try to write to the trend of the moment.
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