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.
Interpretation
The quote reflects the author's unplanned journey to writing, driven by a love for exploration through science fiction.
In this quote, Alan Dean Foster shares his initial aspirations of being a traveler and explorer, conveying how his love for science fiction opened up worlds and experiences that were otherwise unattainable. This highlights the transformative power of literature, illustrating how it can fulfill our desire for adventure and exploration in ways that reality sometimes cannot.
In practice
This quote can inspire aspiring writers at a creative writing workshop.
I like to act in films, I like to shoot 'em, I like to direct 'em, I like to be around 'em. I like the feel of it and it's something I respect. It doesn't make any difference whether it's a crappy film or a good film. Anyone who can make a film, I already love. But I feel sorry if they don't put any thought in it because then they missed the boat.
People are meant to be certain places, and I think I'm meant to be on a sound stage doing situation comedy.
There's a moral force in a sentence when it comes out right. It speaks the writer's will to live.
Beauty is a key to the mystery and a call to transcendence. It is an invitation to savor life and to dream of the future. That is why the beauty of created things can never fully satisfy. It stirs that hidden nostalgia for God which a lover of beauty like Saint Augustine could express in incomparable terms: 'Late have I loved you, beauty so old and so new: late have I loved you!'.
Ecstasy is the accurate term for the intensity of consciousness that occurs in the creative act.
I grew up like Athena — covered with playing cards instead of armor — and, at the age of seven, materialized on a TV show, doing magic.
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