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Alan Dean Foster

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.

Alan Dean Foster

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The author expresses that writing gives him the opportunity to explore different places and cultures through imagination, fulfilling his desire to experience the world. He admires Sir Richard Francis Burton, a famous 19th-century explorer, but feels he was born too late to live that kind of adventurous life firsthand.

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