Alan Dean Foster > Quotes

“The thing all writers do best is find ways to avoid writing.”
― Alan Dean Foster

“Freedom is just chaos with better lighting”
― Alan Dean Foster, To the Vanishing Point

“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.”
― Alan Dean Foster

“The universe is full of dead people who lived by assumption.”
― Alan Dean Foster, Star Wars: Splinter of the Mind's Eye

“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”
― Alan Dean Foster, The Force Awakens

“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.”
― Alan Dean Foster

“Crendendo Vides: By Believing, One Sees”
― Alan Dean Foster, Voyage of the Basset

“Spontaneity is one of the joys of existence, especially if you prepare for it in advance.”
― Alan Dean Foster, Nor Crystal Tears

“Nuke it from orbit. It's the only way to be sure." (Ellen Ripley)”
― Alan Dean Foster, Aliens

“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.”
― Alan Dean Foster, The Force Awakens

“I’m not afraid of the dark I know. It’s the dark I don’t that terrifies me.”
― Alan Dean Foster, Alien

“No one understands the lonely perfection of my dreams.”
― Alan Dean Foster, Alien: Covenant

“That was her life, Rey reflected: a succession of anxious moments, interrupted only by the novelty of occasional panic.”
― Alan Dean Foster, The Force Awakens

“A little bit of everything you admire eventually rubs off on you.”
― Alan Dean Foster, Nor Crystal Tears

“She finally managed to free her fingers from his. “I know how to run without you holding my hand!”
― Alan Dean Foster, The Force Awakens

“…those who have their mouths open all the time generally have their ears shut.”
― Alan Dean Foster

“Never underestimate a droid,”
― Alan Dean Foster, Star Wars: The Force Awakens

“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.”
― Alan Dean Foster, The Force Awakens

“A man with a gun may hunt a tiger during the day with some expectation of success. Turn out his light, put the man in the jungle at night, surround him with the unknown and all his primitive fears return. Advantage to the tiger.”
― Alan Dean Foster, Alien

“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.”
― Alan Dean Foster, The Force Awakens

“If there was one thing a competent fighting force did not need, Hux knew, it was unforeseen outbursts of individuality.”
― Alan Dean Foster, Star Wars: The Force Awakens

“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”
― Alan Dean Foster, Star Trek (Star Trek: Kelvin Movie Novelization #1

“Chewie, we’re home,”
― Alan Dean Foster, The Force Awakens

“With a shock, the trooper who had arrived to render aid to his fallen comrade recognized the one whose life was now bleeding out inside his armor. They had trained together. Shared meals, stories, experiences together. Now they were sharing death together.”
― Alan Dean Foster, The Force Awakens

“A star has died. Elsewhere in the cosmos, in an unremarkable corner of one galactic arm, a child was born. Such is the balance of existence.”
― Alan Dean Foster, Star Trek (Star Trek: Kelvin Movie Novelization #1

“She had seen this man before, in a daydream. In a nightmare.”
― Alan Dean Foster, Star Wars: The Force Awakens

“you just performed the improbable by doing the impossible.”
― Alan Dean Foster, The Force Awakens

“Hearing his howls of outrage, a pair of stormtroopers crossing at the far end of the access hallway changed course to investigate. What they saw within the cell as bits and pieces of red-hot debris came flying out caused them to retreat the way they had come—fast.”
― Alan Dean Foster, The Force Awakens

“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.”
― Alan Dean Foster, The Force Awakens

“He did not put his feelings down to simple xenophobia. Basically, he hadn’t expected the alien to be so completely alien.”
― Alan Dean Foster, Alien