Alan Dean Foster Quotes

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• The thing all writers do best is find ways to avoid writing.

  Alan Dean Foster

  Writing, Way

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• 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 me considerably greater insight into how cultural differences affect not only people, but politics and art.

  Alan Dean Foster

  Art, Character, Differences

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• 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 up to become bits and pieces of trees and stars and french fries.

  Alan Dean Foster

  Stars, Tree, Atoms

  Alan Dean Foster (2013). “Glory Lane”, p.37, Hachette UK

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• Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting.

  Alan Dean Foster

  Freedom, Justice, Chaos

  Alan Dean Foster (2014). “To the Vanishing Point”, p.184, Open Road Media

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• The universe is full of dead people who lived by assumption.

  Alan Dean Foster

  People, Assumption, Dead People

  Alan Dean Foster (2011). “Splinter of the Mind's Eye: Star Wars Legends”, p.90, Del Rey

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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.

  Alan Dean Foster

  Crazy, Feel Better, Two

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• Keep writing. Try to do a little bit every day, even if the result looks like crap. Getting from page four to page five is more important than spending three weeks getting page four perfect.

  Alan Dean Foster

  Writing, Perfect, Important

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

  Alan Dean Foster

  Joy, Planning, Spontaneity

  Alan Dean Foster (1982). “Nor crystal tears”, Del Rey

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• 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 to go places that were otherwise inaccessible, which is why I started reading it.

  Alan Dean Foster

  Travel, Growing Up, Reading

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• 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 is carefully structured and well-thought-out. That's where the real danger lies.

  Alan Dean Foster

  Lying, Real, People

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• I've been writing full-time since 1978.

  Alan Dean Foster

  Writing

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• I write early in the morning, usually after reading portions of at least half a dozen newspapers on the web.

  Alan Dean Foster

  Morning, Reading, Writing

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• Don't try to write to the trend of the moment.

  Alan Dean Foster

  Writing, Trying, Trends

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• In one book, CACHALOT, just for my own amusement, every character is based directly on someone I have known.

  Alan Dean Foster

  Book, Character, Amusement

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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

  Stories, Research, Fantasy

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• 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 story and would rather read something new.

  Alan Dean Foster

  Book, Reading, Mean

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• 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, but also a certain degree of sterility.

  Alan Dean Foster

  Giving Up, Sacrifice, Degrees

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• An apex is always surrounded only by emptiness

  Alan Dean Foster

  Emptiness, Apex

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• The storm hit with all the fury of a woman who’d been dieting for six months, only to discover she’d gained four pounds.

  Alan Dean Foster

  Storm, Dieting, Six Months

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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 Sir Richard Francis Burton, but it's the wrong century.

  Alan Dean Foster

  Travel, Writing, World

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• 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 have hobbies in the traditional sense... I engage in too many activities already through the actions of my characters.

  Alan Dean Foster

  Inspirational, Basketball, Character

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• 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 of concentrating on the special effects, it means you're connecting with them on a personal level.

  Alan Dean Foster

  Motivation, Mistake, Character

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• It is always hard when reality intrudes on belief.

  Alan Dean Foster

  Reality, Statistics, Belief

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

  Alan Dean Foster

  Years, Two, Trying

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• Where lies the line between sorcery and science? It is only a matter of terminology, my friend.

  Alan Dean Foster

  Lying, Science, Sorcery

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