Kevin J. Anderson Quotes & Sayings

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

We must think beyond ourselves — Kevin J. Anderson

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

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

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

He looked up. His mouth stayed where it was and noise quit coming out of it. Yes, Asil thought, the other's awe soothing the feathers that had been ruffled by the wait, I am beautiful. — Kevin J. Anderson

ELANTRIS is a new BEN HUR for the fantasy genre, with a sweeping, epic storyline and closely personal characters. — Kevin J. Anderson

Some presters might tell you never to question, but that is tantamount to telling you not to think. Odun created us to explore, to experience. There is no harm in asking questions ... — Kevin J. Anderson

Frohike ... had a long-standing crush on Dana Scully, but basically it was all talk. Mulder suspected Frohike would turn into a jittering mass of nerves if Scully ever consented to go out with him. — Kevin J. Anderson

Scars tell stories of who we are and what we did. A person without marks hasn't done anything. — Kevin J. Anderson

The small room was furnished with little more than odd smells and disappointment. — Kevin J. Anderson

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

There is grand romance in The Lord of the Rings. It's an important part of epic literature. — Kevin J. Anderson

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

So you and the lovely Agent Scully are going down to investigate?' Frohike said, sounding hopeful.
'Yeah, we leave for Cancun tomorrow.'
'Our tax dollars at work,' Langly snorted.
'I'd love to see Agent Scully with a healthy tropical tan,' Frohike said.
'Down, Frohike,' Mulder said. — Kevin J. Anderson

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

We wanted to write the first prequels as a story that anyone could pick up. — Kevin J. Anderson

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

Scully,' [Mulder] said, his voice quiet and serious, 'with the ... unorthodox explanations I often find when studying the evidence, I know you're always skeptical-but every time you're at least fair to me. You respect my opinion, even when you don't agree with it.' He looked at his hands. 'I don't know if I've ever told you, but I really appreciate that.'
She looked at him and smiled. 'You've told me, Mulder. Maybe not in words ... but you've told me. — Kevin J. Anderson

That night the first frost of autumn struck Tucker's Grove. It crept up from the ground, snaring the fragile roots of plants. It emerged from the air, etching its signature on window-panes. A portent. The year was nearing its end. Things would die soon. — Kevin J. Anderson

Each life is the sum total of its moments. — Kevin J. Anderson

The world was her oyster, except she didn't care for oysters. Better yet, the world was her raspberry. She liked raspberries. — Kevin J. Anderson

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

You're being prejudiced, McGoo. Even unnaturals want love. — Kevin J. Anderson

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

I've seen too many writers derail their creative process by stopping the action to tweak a word or a sentence. If you write a few paragraphs, then go back and polish them, you destroy all the forward momentum you had. It's like shifting gears - forward, reverse, forward, reverse. You could burn out your mental transmission. If you can train yourself to save the criticism for the second draft, you'll actually finish writing and have something to polish. — Kevin J. Anderson

All life is a series of seemingly insignificant tasks and decisions, culminating in the definition of an individual and her purpose in life. — Kevin J. Anderson

We each have our lives ... What matters is not how long those lives last, but what we do with them. — Kevin J. Anderson

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! — Kevin J. Anderson

I have a feeling we're mooning a mean junkyard dog, all brave and laughing - until the dog's leash breaks — Kevin J. Anderson

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

SHADOW PROWLER is a fresh, exuberant take on territory that will be familiar to all fans of classic high fantasy. Alexey Pehov introduces a cast of charming, quirky, unsavory, even loathesome characters in a fast-paced, entertaining adventure. — Kevin J. Anderson

Optimism is the best fertilizer. — Kevin J. Anderson

The best place to start an adventure is with a quiet, perfect life ... and someone who realizes that it can't possibly be enough. — Kevin J. Anderson

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 ... — Kevin J. Anderson

Of course you don't make any noise in space, because there's no air. — Kevin J. Anderson

For a feature in next month's issue of Prog magazine, the photographer spent many hours setting up a photo shoot of me with part of my music collection in my writing office. Since I do most of my writing outside in nature, we felt this shot was most representative. — Kevin J. Anderson

On second glance, though, the activities didn't seem regimented or organized enough to have been put together by the Earth military. The EDF tended to lay out everything in straight lines and perfect grids. Conversely, this work seemed energetic and independent, as if each unit was following only a general master plan. — Kevin J. Anderson

Luke smiled at his friend. "I seem to remember you called the Force a 'hokey religion' when I first met you."
Han looked away, embarrassed. "Well, I've gotten smarter since then. — Kevin J. Anderson

Leave it to a Jedi never to give you a straight answer. — Kevin J. Anderson

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

When tending a vast and beautiful garden, you have to plant many seeds, never knowing ahead of time which ones will germinate, which will produce the most glorious flowers, which will bear the sweetest fruit. A good gardener plants them all, tends and nurtures them, and wishes them well. Optimism is the best fertilizer. — Kevin J. Anderson

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

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

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

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

My stories aren't for everyone - they were never meant to be - but — Kevin J. Anderson

When I was doing preliminary research on this case, I remembered the story about Tlazolteotl.' [Mulder] glanced at the old archaeologist. 'Am I pronouncing it correctly? It sounds like I'm swallowing a turtle. — Kevin J. Anderson

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

I am serving the purpose for which I was designed, therefore I am satisfied with my existence. — Kevin J. Anderson

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

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

The future was glorious once. It was filled with sleek silver spaceships, lunar colonies, and galactic empires. The horizon seemed within reach; we could almost grasp the stars if we would but try. — Kevin J. Anderson

While death isn't a sure thing anymore, taxes still are. — Kevin J. Anderson

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

Dreamers have a hidden strength that is often mistaken for meekness by those who have power." The — Kevin J. Anderson

Somebody hates vampires, Mr. Chambeaux, but I have no idea who or why. Haven't they read Twilight? — Kevin J. Anderson

We have failed to see that total peace can be as deadly as total war. — Kevin J. Anderson

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

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

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

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

It's just human, or inhuman, nature: People will find a way to make a big deal out of their differences-the smaller, the better. It reminded me of the Mantagues and the Capulets (if I wanted to think highbrow), or the Hatfields and the McCoys (if I wanted to go lowbrow) ... or the Jets and the Sharks (if I happened to feel musical). — Kevin J. Anderson

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

A moment of consideration often prevents a thousand apologies — Kevin J. Anderson