It’s a life of sacrifice. There are rewards, but also a certain degree of sterility.
ALAN DEAN FOSTERIn loquaciousness lay insanity.
More Alan Dean Foster Quotes
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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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There’s certainly more new SF available than when I started writing.
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I enjoy listening to classical music and heavy metal.
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Growing up, I never gave a thought to being a writer.
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I have a bad tendency to get rapidly bored with my own material.
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Spontaneity is one of the joys of existence, especially if you prepare for it in advance.
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Getting inside the mind of a terrorist wasn’t difficult at all.
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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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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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It is always hard when reality intrudes on belief.
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I hear entire symphonies, oratorios, in my head, but I can’t write a note.
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Advances have fallen, generally, for everything except the biggest potential bestsellers.
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Living gives you a better understanding of life.
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Even as children, human beings fabricate elaborate revenge fantasies.
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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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