Alan Dean Foster Quotes
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“If youre crazy, theres 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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“The thing all writers do best is find ways to avoid writing.”
— Alan Dean Foster
— Alan Dean Foster
“The universe is full of dead people who lived by assumption.”
— Alan Dean Foster
— Alan Dean Foster
First comes the day Then comes the night. After the darkness Shines through the light. The difference, they say, Is only made right By the resolving of gray Through refined Jedi sight. -Journal of the Whills, 7:477
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“Nuke it from orbit. It's the only way to be sure. (Ellen Ripley)”
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“A little bit of everything you admire eventually rubs off on you.”
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“Revenge is little more than an adolescent concession to personal vanity.”
— Alan Dean Foster
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.
— Alan Dean Foster
“How much research I have to do depends on the nature of the story. For fantasy, none at all.”
— Alan Dean Foster
“I've been writing full-time since 1978.”
— Alan Dean Foster
— Alan Dean Foster
— Alan Dean Foster
— Alan Dean Foster
Try to be brief, will you, Tru?" Tse-Mallory asked his companion. "If there is one among us who is guilty of persistent loquacity," came the reply smoothly, "it is not I." "Debatable" was Tse-Mallory's simple retort, as he followed September up the steps leading out of the temple. "Not without being guilty of the crime of debating!" shouted Truzenzuzex,
— Alan Dean Foster
— Alan Dean Foster
— Alan Dean Foster
“The two stormtroopers might not have been tactically sophisticated, but they had been good shots.”
— Alan Dean Foster
Tekka shrugged-an old man's shrug, slow and full of meaning. I've traveled too far and seen too much to ignore the collective anguish that threatens to drown the galaxy in a flood of dark despair. Something must be done; whatever the cost, whatever the danger. Without the Jedi, there can be no balance in the Force, and all will be given over to the dark side.
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It was exciting and intellectually gratifying to speculate on what might lie waiting in the black gulfs when one was behind the business end of a telescope, quite another to do so isolated on an unpleasant little speck of a world such as this, confronted by a ship of non-human manufacture that uncomfortably resembled a growth instead of a familiar device for manipulating and overcoming the neat laws of physics.
— Alan Dean Foster
Turning the planet into what astrophysicists called a pocket nova.
— Alan Dean Foster
“Luke Skywalker? I thought he was just a myth.”
— Alan Dean Foster
I don't get to treat many lightsaber wounds. It's such an old weapon. People today prefer to fight with rifles and blasters, from long range." She shrugged. "I suppose it doesn't matter. Death is death, no matter the mechanism that is employed to beget it.
— Alan Dean Foster
It is I, See-Threepio! You probably don't recognize me because of the red arm. Turning
— Alan Dean Foster
— Alan Dean Foster
— Alan Dean Foster
— Alan Dean Foster
He worked to pay attention, realizing that the tottering upright stinking blob was speaking. No, he corrected himself resolutely: It was a graceful, fluid biped who was addressing him.
— Alan Dean Foster
Just stay calm and collected and baffle them with space dust.
— Alan Dean Foster
But ... this will begin to make things right.
— Alan Dean Foster
That slimy sycophant Hux
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The Millennium Falcon rose.
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“Confronted by seven tall, cloaked figures, dark and foreboding, all armed.”
— Alan Dean Foster
An apex is always surrounded only by emptiness
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“It is always hard when reality intrudes on belief.”
— Alan Dean Foster
“Where lies the line between sorcery and science? It is only a matter of terminology, my friend.”
— Alan Dean Foster
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