All I ever wanted to be was a traveler and explorer.
ALAN DEAN FOSTERHow much research I have to do depends on the nature of the story. For fantasy, none at all.
More Alan Dean Foster Quotes
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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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Wider travels have given me considerably greater insight into how cultural differences affect not only people, but politics and art.
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I engage in too many activities already through the actions of my characters.
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I hear entire symphonies, oratorios, in my head, but I can’t write a note.
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We’re all nothing but unified arrangements of atoms and particles, drifting around.
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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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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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Living gives you a better understanding of life.
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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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The universe is full of dead people who lived by assumption.
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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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I write early in the morning, usually after reading portions of at least half a dozen newspapers on the web.
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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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Growing up, I never gave a thought to being a writer.
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In loquaciousness lay insanity.
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