Getting inside the mind of a terrorist wasn’t difficult at all.
ALAN DEAN FOSTERThe universe is full of dead people who lived by assumption.
More Alan Dean Foster Quotes
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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 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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Growing up, I never gave a thought to being a writer.
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Spontaneity is one of the joys of existence, especially if you prepare for it in advance.
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Where lies the line between sorcery and science? It is only a matter of terminology, my friend.
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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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Even as children, human beings fabricate elaborate revenge fantasies.
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An apex is always surrounded only by emptiness
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In one book, CACHALOT, just for my own amusement, every character is based directly on someone I have known.
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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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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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We’re all nothing but unified arrangements of atoms and particles, drifting around.
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Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting.
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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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