Kevin J. Anderson Quotes

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Kevin J. Anderson

Profession : Writer

Birth : March 27, 1962

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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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

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

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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.

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

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

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

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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

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.

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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.

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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

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.

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