Kevin J. Anderson quotes

One of the things that was kind of shocking for humans... was to come to terms with was the fact that, hey, we may not be the center of the universe. (Kevin J. Anderson)
I think that somebody with the resources and innovation and the idea is going to come out of nowhere and come up with a successful space travel program. View quote
Kevin J. Anderson
Over the years, I've trained myself to speak using the same language I would use if I were typing: meaning using full sentences in the way that paragraphs and scenes are arranged. View quote
Kevin J. Anderson
I always had this non-stop drive. I had to keep sending stories out and every once in awhile I'd get something accepted or get the little trickle of positive feedback. View quote
Kevin J. Anderson
A moment of consideration often prevents a thousand apologies. View quote
Kevin J. Anderson
The people who make policy decisions should damned well know what they are talking about before they make the decisions. There is nobody who is an expert on cloning who would be afraid after seeing Attack of the Clones. View quote
Kevin J. Anderson
Wouldn't you like to have an augmented memory chip that you could plug into your head so you don't have to look everything up and remember everything? View quote
Kevin J. Anderson
Every spare second I would write, somehow. On my lunch hour, too. View quote
Kevin J. Anderson
Each book will have a lot of cliffhangers, because I like that. View quote
Kevin J. Anderson
There is grand romance in The Lord of the Rings. It's an important part of epic literature. View quote
Kevin J. Anderson
I did several interesting jobs, working in restaurants, I worked at a lab rat farm, feeding and watering all these rats. Then I got a full-time job as a technical writer for a large scientific research laboratory. (Kevin J. Anderson)
Dune is the bestselling science fiction book of all time. It's something you really need to read in your lifetime. If you're going to read The Lord of the Rings, which everyone should, then you have to read Dune, too. View quote
Kevin J. Anderson
Of course you don't make any noise in space, because there's no air. View quote
Kevin J. Anderson
If you had an alien race that looked like insects, then they would build robots to look like themselves, not to look like people. View quote
Kevin J. Anderson
I always turn in my books on time, so you can always count on a book coming out when it's supposed to. View quote
Kevin J. Anderson
I think now I'm up to something like 85 different titles that I've published. View quote
Kevin J. Anderson
I want to make it so that so many things happen... that you didn't expect would happen in this series, that you realize that you have to read every one of them. View quote
Kevin J. Anderson
We wanted to write the first prequels as a story that anyone could pick up. View quote
Kevin J. Anderson
We sat around on a hotel balcony with a bottle of wine and tried to figure out how you would go about blowing up a planet. That's the kind of conversations science fiction writers have when they get together. We don't talk about football or anything like that. View quote
Kevin J. Anderson
I sold my very first novel when I was 24 or 25 years old. View quote
Kevin J. Anderson
I had a minor in Russian history, and this was at the time when the big Cold War was going on. (Kevin J. Anderson)
I got to spend all of my time every day at work reading and editing papers about cutting-edge technical research and getting paid for it. Then I'd go home at night and turn what I learned into science fiction stories. View quote
Kevin J. Anderson
It was like there was a pile of kindling that was in the back of my imagination just waiting there. Once I lit it, it just flared up and I kept getting ideas and ideas. View quote
Kevin J. Anderson
I wanted the feel in these books to be like an epic fantasy, with kings, queens, dukes and court politics, but of course like what I was explaining before, about making the science make sense, you have to make the politics make sense, too. View quote
Kevin J. Anderson
I don't think the author should make the reader do that much work to remember who somebody is. View quote
Kevin J. Anderson