Alan Dean Foster Quotes

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• Writing allows me the time to travel and see the world, which is what I always wanted to do. I'd really like to have been…
• Where lies the line between sorcery and science? It is only a matter of terminology, my friend.
• I enjoy listening to classical music and heavy metal. I play basketball and try to go diving at least once a year. I don't really…
• Spontaneity is one of the joys of existence, especially if you prepare for it in advance.
• Besides the mistakes that are pointed out, I love the way readers become involved with the characters. When readers start asking about character motivations instead…
• Living gives you a better understanding of life. I would hope that my characters have become deeper and more rounded personalities. Wider travels have given…
• It is always hard when reality intrudes on belief.
• I usually do one con a year as a GoH and try to make the World Fantasy Convention for business purposes. Last year I went…
• We're all nothing but unified arrangements of atoms and particles, drifting around, enjoying consciousness every now and then for a second or so before splitting…
• I see the Jedi mission as giving up a normal life in exchange for protecting the innocent. It's a life of sacrifice. There are rewards,…
• I have a bad tendency to get rapidly bored with my own material, so rewriting is hard for me. I mean, I already know the…
• Growing up, I never gave a thought to being a writer. All I ever wanted to be was a traveler and explorer. Science-fiction allowed me…
• Dawn was written well before 9/11. People speak a lot today about the banality of evil, but not all evil is banal. Some of it…
• I've been writing full-time since 1978.
• I write early in the morning, usually after reading portions of at least half a dozen newspapers on the web.
• Don't try to write to the trend of the moment.
• In one book, CACHALOT, just for my own amusement, every character is based directly on someone I have known.
• How much research I have to do depends on the nature of the story. For fantasy, none at all.
• 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…
• There's certainly more new SF available than when I started writing. That means there's also more bad SF available. Whether there is also more good…

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