Even as children, human beings fabricate elaborate revenge fantasies.
ALAN DEAN FOSTERThe universe is full of dead people who lived by assumption.
More Alan Dean Foster Quotes
-
-
Getting inside the mind of a terrorist wasn’t difficult at all.
ALAN DEAN FOSTER -
All I ever wanted to be was a traveler and explorer.
ALAN DEAN FOSTER -
Some of it is carefully structured and well-thought-out. That’s where the real danger lies.
ALAN DEAN FOSTER -
The thing all writers do best is find ways to avoid writing.
ALAN DEAN FOSTER -
I play basketball and try to go diving at least once a year. I don’t really have hobbies in the traditional sense.
ALAN DEAN FOSTER -
I’ve been writing full-time since 1978.
ALAN DEAN FOSTER -
I have a bad tendency to get rapidly bored with my own material.
ALAN DEAN FOSTER -
Besides the mistakes that are pointed out, I love the way readers become involved with the characters.
ALAN DEAN FOSTER -
In loquaciousness lay insanity.
ALAN DEAN FOSTER -
It’s a life of sacrifice. There are rewards, but also a certain degree of sterility.
ALAN DEAN FOSTER -
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.
ALAN DEAN FOSTER -
An apex is always surrounded only by emptiness
ALAN DEAN FOSTER -
Advances have fallen, generally, for everything except the biggest potential bestsellers.
ALAN DEAN FOSTER -
Don’t try to write to the trend of the moment.
ALAN DEAN FOSTER -
I hear entire symphonies, oratorios, in my head, but I can’t write a note.
ALAN DEAN FOSTER