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There are 46 quotes for the author Alan Dean Foster

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Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting.
Subject: Freedom

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.

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

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.

Professional diplomats tend to get short shrift in SF, unless they're ambassadors or something else exalted. Much of the real work of diplomacy is done by lower-level workers whose names never appear in the media unless they get shot or blown up.

One of the hardest things to do is force yourself to make the characters you're writing about conform to the templates set down by the originator, instead of re-writing them to suit your own particular take.

How much research I have to do depends on the nature of the story. For fantasy, none at all.

A number of years ago a couple of fans of my work, the artist Michael Goodwin and a writer named Robert Teague, put together a 64-page book called A Guide to the Commonwealth. I made corrections and updates, and have updated it ever since. That's my ongoing manual for keeping track of things.

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

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

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.

I used to read voraciously within the field, but over the past 15 years my eyes have grown bad for reading. Consequently, I have to conserve my reading time for non-fiction: research, natural history, biography, current events, and the like. I regret the loss enormously.

It's unreasonable, for example, to expect a female Jedi to think exactly like a male Jedi... or an alien one... in every situation.

I've always been attracted to the history of nomadic people who've struggled to cope with modernity while simultaneously maintaining their ancient traditions. It's not an easy trick to pull off. With the Alwari, I wanted to try and do it.

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

I'm currently writing scenes for the U.S. Army for a game called SOLDIERS. Like Olivier said, it's the work that's important.

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. I was going to be a lawyer, but I got saved.

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.

I loved Shrek, and was very fond of K-Pax.

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.

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