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Kevin J Anderson Quotes
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? Id 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 Quotes
Dune is the bestselling science fiction book of all time. Its something you really need to read in your lifetime. If youre going to read The Lord of the Rings, which everyone should, then you have to read Dune, too. - Kevin J Anderson Quotes
Each book will have a lot of cliffhangers, because I like that. - Kevin J Anderson Quotes
Every spare second I would write, somehow. On my lunch hour, too. - Kevin J Anderson Quotes
I always had this non-stop drive. I had to keep sending stories out and every once in awhile Id get something accepted or get the little trickle of positive feedback. - Kevin J Anderson Quotes
I always turn in my books on time, so you can always count on a book coming out when its supposed to. - Kevin J Anderson Quotes
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 Quotes
I dont think the author should make the reader do that much work to remember who somebody is. - Kevin J Anderson Quotes
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 Id go home at night and turn what I learned into science fiction stories. - Kevin J Anderson Quotes
I had a minor in Russian history, and this was at the time when the big Cold War was going on. - Kevin J Anderson Quotes
I just get too many phone calls during the day. If Im in the middle of a scene and the phone rings, it really disrupts my concentration. - Kevin J Anderson Quotes
I mean, I wasnt stupid. I knew wed make money and sell a lot of Dune books. - Kevin J Anderson Quotes
I sold my very first novel when I was 24 or 25 years old. - Kevin J Anderson Quotes
I think now Im up to something like 85 different titles that Ive published. - Kevin J Anderson Quotes
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 Quotes
I want to make it so that so many things happen... that you didnt expect would happen in this series, that you realize that you have to read every one of them. - Kevin J Anderson Quotes
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 Quotes
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 Quotes
Ive had the same, full-time assistant and typist for eight or nine years now. Shes read everything Ive written, she types everything and does a good job, translates it and makes comments. - Kevin J Anderson Quotes
If I could go back in time and tell my younger self that eventually that Id become very successful writing Dune books after Frank Herberts death, I would have laughed myself silly, I think, at how strange that prospect would be. - Kevin J Anderson Quotes
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 Quotes
If you look at the British royal family and take away the scandals and the goofy stuff thats going on, people love to have this king to look up to - the royals are like celebrities. - Kevin J Anderson Quotes
In a certain sense, this guy - who is one of the most evil people in the book - hes not really that bad at running the show, because he knows what hes doing, hes smart and hes got the big picture in mind. Hes like the Godfather. - Kevin J Anderson Quotes
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. - Kevin J Anderson Quotes
My dad is a bank president and my mom was an accountant and they didnt 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 Quotes
My total years income from working as hard as I possibly could from writing went from like $30 one year to about $70 the next year. And it made me realize that maybe you couldnt really pay the rent that way. - Kevin J Anderson Quotes
Of course you dont make any noise in space, because theres no air. - Kevin J Anderson Quotes
One of my very favorite things to do is to write bad guys. Because I learned that bad guys never think of themselves as the bad guy. - 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 Quotes
Over the years, Ive 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 Quotes
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