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Alan Dean Foster Biography

Alan Dean Foster (born November 18, 1946) is an American writer of fantasy and science fiction, who has written several book series, more than 20 standalone novels and many faithful novelizations of film scripts.

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Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting.

Chaos, Freedom, Justice, Lighting

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

Assumption, Dead People, Lived, People, Universe

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.

Gave, Growing Up, Places, Reading, Travel, Traveler

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.

Certain, Degrees, Giving Up, Innocent, Rewards, Sacrifice

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

Thing, Way, Ways, Writers, Writing

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

Fantasy, Research, Stories, Story

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.

Field, Good, Historians, Matter, Mean, Writing

It is always hard when reality intrudes on belief.

Belief, Intrudes, Reality, Statistics

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.

Diversity, Fields, International, Make, Triumph, Writers

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.

Crazy, Deal, Feel Better, Things, Two

An apex is always surrounded only by emptiness

Emptiness, Apex, Surrounded

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

Amusement, Based, Book, Character, Directly

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.

Allows, Burton, Travel, World, Writing, Wrong

I've been writing full-time since 1978.

1978, Writing

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.

Atoms, Enjoying, Nothing, Splitting Up, Stars, Tree

In loquaciousness lay insanity.

Insanity, Lay, Lays, Loquaciousness

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

Entire, Head, Notes, Oratorios, Symphony, Writing

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.

Real, Lying, People, Lies, Banal

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.

Art, Character, Differences, Given, Rounded

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.

Done, Economic, Fallen, Given, Potential, Technological

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