Kevin J. Anderson Quotes


We wanted to write the first prequels as a story that anyone could pick up. Kevin J. Anderson Anyone 84
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 Imagination 80
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 Alien 67
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 Afraid 61
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 Farm 60
I sold my very first novel when I was 24 or 25 years old. Kevin J. Anderson First 59
I had a minor in Russian history, and this was at the time when the big Cold War was going on. Kevin J. Anderson History 56
Each book will have a lot of cliffhangers, because I like that. Kevin J. Anderson Book 53
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 Science 47
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 41
There will come a time of fire and night when enemies rise and empires fall when the stars themselves begin to die. Kevin J. Anderson Science fiction 37
Every spare second I would write, somehow. On my lunch hour, too. Kevin J. Anderson Hour 36
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 Dad 35
We each have our lives... What matters is not how long those lives last but what we do with them. Kevin J. Anderson Science fiction 31
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 Death 30
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 Center 27
I am serving the purpose for which I was designed therefore I am satisfied with my existence. Kevin J. Anderson Fiction 27
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 24
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 24

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