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  • 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.

  • That's what people need to remember about reviewers; opinions can be all over the spectrum, and you just need to find a reviewer whose tastes match your own.

    "Author Spotlight: Kevin J. Anderson & Sherrilyn Kenyon". Interview with Liz Argall, www.lightspeedmagazine.com. August 2016.
  • We each have our lives... What matters is not how long those lives last, but what we do with them.

    Kevin J. Anderson (2011). “Hidden Empire: The Saga Of Seven Suns - Book One”, p.234, Simon and Schuster
  • There is grand romance in The Lord of the Rings. It's an important part of epic literature.

  • 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?

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • Patrick Rothfuss gives us a fabulous debut, standing firmly on the main stage of the fantasy genre and needing no warm-up act. Jordan and Goodkind must be looking nervously over their shoulders!

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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 (2011). “Of Fire and Night”, p.538, Simon and Schuster
  • 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.

  • 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.

  • Every life has a destiny... the trick is to discover it before then end of your life. Otherwise, you will have too many regrets.

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

  • 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.

  • Well, I know that George Lucas doesn't like it at all. When I was working on The Illustrated Star Wars Universe, he told me that he would be happy if every copy could be tracked down and smashed.

  • No, no, no - you don't argue with concepts. You have to claim Dogma, and therefore leave no room for rational thought.

  • 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.

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

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • The real key is time management and being able to focus on what you need to, on using every available minute to accomplish something that needs to be done.

    "Author Spotlight: Kevin J. Anderson & Sherrilyn Kenyon". Interview with Liz Argall, www.lightspeedmagazine.com. August 2016.
  • 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.

  • 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.

  • I sold my very first novel when I was 24 or 25 years old.

  • We must think beyond ourselves

    Kevin J. Anderson (2011). “A Forest of Stars: The Saga Of Seven Suns - BOOK TWO”, p.178, Simon and Schuster
  • 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.

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