Alan Dean Foster

“Growing up, I never gave a thought to being a writer. All I ever wanted to be was a traveler and explorer. Science-fiction allowed me to go places that were otherwise inaccessible, which is why I started reading it. I was going to be a lawyer, but I got saved.”

“It illuminated a vision Dante could not have imagined in his wildest nightmares, nor Poe in the grasp of an uncontrollable delirium.”

“Don't try to write to the trend of the moment.”

“The thing all writers do best is find ways to avoid writing.”

“I hear entire symphonies, oratorios, in my head, but I can't write a note.”

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