I’ve been writing full-time since 1978.
ALAN DEAN FOSTERIn loquaciousness lay insanity.
More Alan Dean Foster Quotes
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I engage in too many activities already through the actions of my characters.
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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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Wider travels have given me considerably greater insight into how cultural differences affect not only people, but politics and art.
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I would hope that my characters have become deeper and more rounded personalities.
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An apex is always surrounded only by emptiness
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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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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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How much research I have to do depends on the nature of the story. For fantasy, none at all.
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Given all the changes, both economic and technological, SF hasn’t done too badly.
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Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting.
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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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We’re all nothing but unified arrangements of atoms and particles, drifting around.
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I enjoy listening to classical music and heavy metal.
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I have a bad tendency to get rapidly bored with my own material.
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Living gives you a better understanding of life.
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