I engage in too many activities already through the actions of my characters.
ALAN DEAN FOSTERIn loquaciousness lay insanity.
More Alan Dean Foster Quotes
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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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Last year I went to a worldcon for the first time in two decades. I may go again this year.
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Spontaneity is one of the joys of existence, especially if you prepare for it in advance.
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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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I see the Jedi mission as giving up a normal life in exchange for protecting the innocent.
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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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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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Some of it is carefully structured and well-thought-out. That’s where the real danger lies.
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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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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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I have a bad tendency to get rapidly bored with my own material.
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Don’t try to write to the trend of the moment.
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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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Advances have fallen, generally, for everything except the biggest potential bestsellers.
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Given all the changes, both economic and technological, SF hasn’t done too badly.
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