Alan Dean Foster Quotes

Last year I went to a worldcon for the first time in two decades. I may go again this year.

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.

Wider travels have given me considerably greater insight into how cultural differences affect not only people, but politics and art.

Writing allows me the time to travel and see the world, which is what I always wanted to do.

Science-fiction allowed me to go places that were otherwise inaccessible, which is why I started reading it.

Getting from page four to page five is more important than spending three weeks getting page four perfect.

I hear entire symphonies, oratorios, in my head, but I can’t write a note.

There’s certainly more new SF available than when I started writing.

Spontaneity is one of the joys of existence, especially if you prepare for it in advance.

I’d really like to have been Sir Richard Francis Burton, but it’s the wrong century.