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- One must be an inventor to read well. There is then creative reading as well as creative writing. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Each age, it is found, must write its own books; or rather, each generation for the next succeeding. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- There are different rules for reading, for thinking, and for talking. Writing blends all three of them. — Mason Cooley
- In one book, CACHALOT, just for my own amusement, every character is based directly on someone I have known. — Alan Dean Foster
- I write early in the morning, usually after reading portions of at least half a dozen newspapers on the web. — 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