Alan Dean Foster

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

Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting.

Keep writing. Try to do a little bit every day, even if the result looks like crap. Getting from page four to page five is more important than spending three weeks getting page four perfect.

I am more excited about 'Divinity of Doubt: The God Question' than any other book in my entire career, and I've had seven New York Times bestsellers, three of them reaching number one.

It's good to like yourself, and that only comes from hard work, from doing. But vanity is dangerous; it can trip you badly.

It is characteristic of science that the full explanations are often seized in their essence by the percipient scientist long in advance of any possible proof.