Alan Dean Foster
Alan Dean Foster
Alan Dean Fosteris an American writer of fantasy and science fiction, a prolific creator of and contributor to book series as well as the author of more than 20 standalone novels. He is especially prolific in his novelizations of film scripts...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth18 November 1946
CountryUnited States of America
emptiness apex
An apex is always surrounded only by emptiness
carefully danger dawn people structured written
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.
writing way
The thing all writers do best is find ways to avoid writing.
joy spontaneity existence
Spontaneity is one of the joys of existence, especially if you prepare for it in advance.
art character differences
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.
people assumption dead-people
The universe is full of dead people who lived by assumption.
crazy feel-better two
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.
freedom justice chaos
Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting.
writing
I've been writing full-time since 1978.
morning reading writing
I write early in the morning, usually after reading portions of at least half a dozen newspapers on the web.
real lying evil
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.
writing trying trends
Don't try to write to the trend of the moment.
book character amusement
In one book, CACHALOT, just for my own amusement, every character is based directly on someone I have known.
stories research fantasy
How much research I have to do depends on the nature of the story. For fantasy, none at all.