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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
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Alan Dean Foster
Age: 78
Born: 1946
Born: November 18
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I hear entire symphonies, oratorios, in my head, but I can't write a note.
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How much research I have to do depends on the nature of the story. For fantasy, none at all.
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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.
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