Quotes from Alan Dean Foster

I write early in the morning, usually after reading portions of at least half a dozen newspapers on the web.

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.

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

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 is just chaos with better lighting

The universe is full of dead people who lived by assumption.

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

The storm hit with all the fury of a woman who'd been dieting for six months, only to discover she'd gained four pounds.

Crendendo Vides: By Believing, One Sees

Spontaneity is one of the joys of existence, especially if you prepare for it in advance.

It is you," Ren murmured. His words unsettled her: Not for the first time, he seemed to know more about her than she did about herself.

Nuke it from orbit. It's the only way to be sure." (Ellen Ripley)

No one understands the lonely perfection of my dreams.

those who have their mouths open all the time generally have their ears shut.

She finally managed to free her fingers from his. "I know how to run without you holding my hand!

Those who had led the rebellion had under-estimated the deeply buried desire of far too large a proportion of the population who simply preferred to be told what to do. Much easier it was to follow orders than to think for oneself. So everyone had argued and debated and discussed. Until it was too late.

I'm not afraid of the dark I know. It's the dark I don't that terrifies me.

That was her life, Rey reflected: a succession of anxious moments, interrupted only by the novelty of occasional panic.

When people don't have access to facts, they invent what they'd like to believe, or what they think others would like to hear.

Never underestimate a droid

If there was one thing a competent fighting force did not need, Hux knew, it was unforeseen outbursts of individuality.

That which is beautiful is magnified by being shared with others.That which is painful is often moderated by being shared. Both are logical. -Spock

She was nearly twenty, with dark hair, darker eyes, and a hint of something deeper within. There was a freshness about her that the surrounding harsh landscape had failed to eliminate. Anyone glancing at her would have thought her soft: a serious error of judgment.

Chewie, we're home