Alan Dean Foster

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

— Alan Dean Foster

#dozen #early #half #i #i write

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

— Alan Dean Foster

#full-time #i #since #writing

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

— Alan Dean Foster

#based #book #character #directly #every

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

#crap #day #even #every #every day

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

#available #bad #certainly #field #future

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

#always #been #burton #century #francis

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

#business #con #convention #decades #fantasy

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

#badly #biggest #both #changes #done

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

— Alan Dean Foster

#trend #try #write