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How much research I have to do depends on the nature of the story. For fantasy, none at all.

Alan Dean Foster

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I have a bad tendency to get rapidly bored with my own material.
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I hear entire symphonies, oratorios, in my head, but I can’t write a note.
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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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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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Another Better Crazy Cure Feel Make One Thing Yourself
Getting from page four to page five is more important than spending three weeks getting page four perfect.
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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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Keep writing. Try to do a little bit every day, even if the result looks like crap.
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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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Living gives you a better understanding of life.
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Growing up, I never gave a thought to being a writer.
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It is always hard when reality intrudes on belief.
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Always Belief Hard Intrude Reality
How much research I have to do depends on the nature of the story. For fantasy, none at all.
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That means there’s also more bad SF available. Whether there is also more good is a matter for future historians of the field.
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Writing allows me the time to travel and see the world, which is what I always wanted to do.
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Advances have fallen, generally, for everything except the biggest potential bestsellers.
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Advantage Bestsellers Biggest Everything Except Fallen Generally Potential
When readers start asking about character motivations instead of concentrating on the special effects, it means you’re connecting with them on a personal level.
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