Kevin J. Anderson Quotes - Page 2

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• 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

  Writing, Issues, Office

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• 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

  Giving, Jordan, Fabulous

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

  Kevin J. Anderson

  Writing, Lunch, Hours

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• 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

  Country, Ocean, Land

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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.

  Kevin J. Anderson

  Book, Literature, Coming Out

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

  Kevin J. Anderson

  Thinking, Remember, Should

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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

  Kevin J. Anderson

  War, Literature, Russian History

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• 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

  Character, Adventure, Quirky

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• 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

  Running, Smart, Book

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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.

  Kevin J. Anderson

  Literature, Want, Realizing

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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.

  Kevin J. Anderson

  Kings, Queens, Book

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• 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

  Silly, Book, Writing

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• 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

  Moving, Thinking, Keys

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

  Kevin J. Anderson

  Epic, Romance, Important

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

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  Book, Literature, Cliffhanger

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

  Kevin J. Anderson

  Stupid, Book, Mean

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

  Kevin J. Anderson

  Character, Epic, Fantasy

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• 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

  Jobs, Interesting, Research

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• 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

  Ties, Secret, Looks

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

  Kevin J. Anderson

  Years, Firsts, Novel

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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

  Mom, Dad, Thinking

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• 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, Years, Literature

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• 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.

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  Believe, Cells, Government

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• I think now I'm up to something like 85 different titles that I've published.

  Kevin J. Anderson

  Thinking, Titles, Different

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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

  Travel, Successful, Thinking

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