Science-fiction allowed me to go places that were otherwise inaccessible, which is why I started reading it.
ALAN DEAN FOSTERThe universe is full of dead people who lived by assumption.
More Alan Dean Foster Quotes
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I’ve been writing full-time since 1978.
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I play basketball and try to go diving at least once a year. I don’t really have hobbies in the traditional sense.
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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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Last year I went to a worldcon for the first time in two decades. I may go again this year.
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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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I’d really like to have been Sir Richard Francis Burton, but it’s the wrong century.
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We’re all nothing but unified arrangements of atoms and particles, drifting around.
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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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Some of it is carefully structured and well-thought-out. That’s where the real danger lies.
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There’s certainly more new SF available than when I started writing.
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I engage in too many activities already through the actions of my characters.
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I write early in the morning, usually after reading portions of at least half a dozen newspapers on the web.
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Even as children, human beings fabricate elaborate revenge fantasies.
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In loquaciousness lay insanity.
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Living gives you a better understanding of life.
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