Alan Dean Foster Quotes

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• It is always hard when reality intrudes on belief.

  Alan Dean Foster

  Reality, Statistics, Belief

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• In loquaciousness lay insanity.

  Alan Dean Foster

  Insanity, Lays

  Alan Dean Foster (2014). “Alien: The Official Movie Novelization”, p.8, Titan Books

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• There is nothing in art, in philosophy, or in politics to match the fervor of mutual cooperation among discordant bands of fanatics.

  Alan Dean Foster

  Art, Philosophy, Band

  Alan Dean Foster (2002). “Diuturnity's Dawn: Book Three of the Founding of the Commonwealth”, p.85, Del Rey

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• Advances have fallen, generally, for everything except the biggest potential bestsellers. Given all the changes, both economic and technological, SF hasn't done too badly.

  Alan Dean Foster

  Done, Economic, Given

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

  Alan Dean Foster

  Writing, Symphony, Notes

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• Getting inside the mind of a terrorist wasn't difficult at all. Even as children, human beings fabricate elaborate revenge fantasies. We're not a particular species. Check out popular video games.

  Alan Dean Foster

  Children, Revenge, Games

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• I try to challenge myself as much as possible, as often as possible.

  Alan Dean Foster

  Challenges, Trying

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• 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 is a matter for future historians of the field.

  Alan Dean Foster

  Writing, Mean, Matter

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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.

  Alan Dean Foster

  Diversity, Triumph, Fields

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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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• 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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