Kevin J. Anderson Quotes

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, Read, Talking

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, Football, Together

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

Everything, Remember, Memory

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, Country, Put

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

Time, Science, Book

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

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

Write, Second, Lunch

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

Positive, Keep, Once

I always turn in my books on time, so you can always count on a book coming out when it's supposed to.
Kevin J. Anderson

Time, Book, Books

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

Job, Working, Research

I don't think the author should make the reader do that much work to remember who somebody is.
Kevin J. Anderson

Work, Remember, Somebody

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

Work, Time, Home

I had a minor in Russian history, and this was at the time when the big Cold War was going on.
Kevin J. Anderson

Time, History, War

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

Money, Stupid, Mean

I sold my very first novel when I was 24 or 25 years old.
Kevin J. Anderson

Old, Novel, Sold

I think now I'm up to something like 85 different titles that I've published.
Kevin J. Anderson

Different, Titles, Published

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

Travel, Successful, Idea

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.
Kevin J. Anderson

Happen, Read, Realize

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

Politics, Science, Before

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

Good, Job, Everything

If I could go back in time and tell my younger self that eventually that I'd become very successful writing Dune books after Frank Herbert's death, I would have laughed myself silly, I think, at how strange that prospect would be.
Kevin J. Anderson

Time, Death, Successful

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

Themselves, Race, Build

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, Family, Away

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

Smart, Mind, Bad

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

Waiting, Once, Getting

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Writer

Born: March 27, 1962

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