Alan Dean Foster Quotes
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.
Quotes to Explore
-
My mom really inspired me. She has always taught me it's not about us, it's about what we can give back.
-
A writer is a human being. He has to live with a sense of honor.
-
All institutions have lapses, even great ones, especially by individual rogue employees - famously in recent years at 'The Washington Post,' 'The New York Times,' and the three original TV networks.
-
I've been working on this feature script for Master Class, a play by Terrence McNally that won a lot of Tonys.
-
I'm 20 years old, and I still love love. I hope I'm sweet. Just your everyday girl.
-
I know what feels good to eat and what doesn't. I try to err on the side of choices I know will leave me feeling more energized and ready to go, because it's always better to feel healthy.
-
After six years without seeing one, I love just seeing a smile - every smile I see gives me hope.
-
I don't want to give people the impression that I'm an almost perfect human being.
-
Small communities grow great through harmony, great ones fall to pieces through discord.
-
However, I am willing to hear what you can produce from Scripture in favor of any kind of slavery.
-
All the terrorists are basically migrants.
-
If you're going to make a sequel to 'Sicario', you have to - you know, you've got to go beat a brand new path.
-
I've been living. I've been doing the writing thing. I've been being the family man. I've been traveling the world. I been to, like, 18 cities last year. I've been getting my thoughts together, trying to figure out what's going on with hip-hop itself.
-
I'll never do a film because it's a massive budget and I'm gonna get lots of publicity for it and it will bring something else.
-
I like being unconventional.
-
The first time you meet someone, the conversation is sort of on life support. You're just trying to live another moment in the life of the conversation.
-
In the five months I wrote the final draft of 'The Association of Small Bombs,' I never fell out of the book. The world was real to me: plausible and powerful.
-
I'm thought to be a tough writer, but I'm really a softie.
-
The very phrase 'foreign affairs' makes an Englishman convinced that I am about to treat of subjects with which he has no concern.
-
The fellow that has no money is poor. The fellow that has nothing but money is poorer still.
-
But love brings much happiness - much more so than pining brings pain.
-
When I first came out, like a lot of the artists at that time, I had a very polished, very overproduced sound.
-
Sometimes I need to reject the music proposed for my songs because the musicians misunderstand that the Fanny Crosby who once wrote for the people in the saloons has merely changed the lyrics. Oh my no. The church must never sing it's songs to the melodies of the world.
-
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.
