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 FOSTERHow much research I have to do depends on the nature of the story. For fantasy, none at all.
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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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Some of it is carefully structured and well-thought-out. That’s where the real danger lies.
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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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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.
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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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An apex is always surrounded only by emptiness
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Spontaneity is one of the joys of existence, especially if you prepare for it in advance.
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We’re not a particular species. Check out popular video games.
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Given all the changes, both economic and technological, SF hasn’t done too badly.
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In loquaciousness lay insanity.
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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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Advances have fallen, generally, for everything except the biggest potential bestsellers.
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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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I see the Jedi mission as giving up a normal life in exchange for protecting the innocent.
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I try to challenge myself as much as possible, as often as possible.
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