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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
,
Mom
,
Dad
My total year's 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 couldn't really pay the rent that way.
Kevin J. Anderson
Writing
,
Hard
,
Made
Of course you don't make any noise in space, because there's no air.
Kevin J. Anderson
Space
,
Air
,
Noise
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
May
,
Universe
,
Fact
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
Same
,
Speak
,
Language
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
Government
,
Sure
,
Research
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
Human
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Words
,
Down
The great secret behind classified projects is that most of them are so utterly boring and uninteresting that James Bond wouldn't even take a second look at them.
Kevin J. Anderson
Great
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Boring
,
Secret
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
Before
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After
,
Decisions
There is grand romance in The Lord of the Rings. It's an important part of epic literature.
Kevin J. Anderson
Important
,
Lord
,
Literature
We wanted to write the first prequels as a story that anyone could pick up.
Kevin J. Anderson
Wanted
,
Write
,
Story
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American
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Writer
Born:
March 27
, 1962
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