Kevin J. Anderson

I'm talking to you and it's basically a direct communication, whereas if I'm writing a letter to you and you read the letter, there are like 12 extra deconstruction and reconstruction steps in the communication.

— Kevin J. Anderson writing

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 time

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.

— Kevin J. Anderson science

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.

— Kevin J. Anderson language

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.

— Kevin J. Anderson stories

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.

— Kevin J. Anderson success

My dad is a bank president and my mom was an accountant and they didn't think that seeking the life of a freelance writer was very practical, you see. Of course, I was just as determined to do it.

— Kevin J. Anderson life

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?

— Kevin J. Anderson men

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.

— Kevin J. Anderson science

There is grand romance in The Lord of the Rings. It's an important part of epic literature.

— Kevin J. Anderson romance

I mean, I wasn't stupid. I knew we'd make money and sell a lot of Dune books.

— Kevin J. Anderson books

If you had an alien race that looked like insects, then they would build robots to look like themselves, not to look like people.

— Kevin J. Anderson people

Of course you don't make any noise in space, because there's no air.

— Kevin J. Anderson you

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 man

I've had the same, full-time assistant and typist for eight or nine years now. She's read everything I've written, she types everything and does a good job, translates it and makes comments.

— Kevin J. Anderson time

If you look at the British royal family and take away the scandals and the goofy stuff that's going on, people love to have this king to look up to - the royals are like celebrities.

— Kevin J. Anderson love

Sure, President Bush can say that the U.S. government won't fund stem cell research, but believe me, Japan is applauding. Because they will just do it first and get all the patents.

— Kevin J. Anderson men

Telling your story out loud is the way human beings communicate. We don't normally think up words, translate how to spell them and then move our fingers up and down over this randomly arranged set of keys to make the same letters appear on a screen.

— Kevin J. Anderson words

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.

— Kevin J. Anderson people

Do you want Columbus to go across the ocean, or do you want to put a message in a bottle and hope that it lands somewhere? I'd rather have actual people be there. Whether they look like Americans or like the inhabitants of some other country, depends on who has the most drive.

— Kevin J. Anderson hope

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.

— Kevin J. Anderson science

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.

— Kevin J. Anderson life

In a certain sense, this guy - who is one of the most evil people in the book - he's not really that bad at running the show, because he knows what he's doing, he's smart and he's got the big picture in mind. He's like the Godfather.

— Kevin J. Anderson art

Each book will have a lot of cliffhangers, because I like that.

— Kevin J. Anderson anger

Every spare second I would write, somehow. On my lunch hour, too.

— Kevin J. Anderson write

Im talking to you and its basically a direct communication, whereas if Im writing a letter to you and you read the letter, there are like 12 extra deconstruction and reconstruction steps in the communication.

— Kevin J Anderson writing

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