Kevin J. Anderson Quotes & Sayings

“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.”

“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.”

“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 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 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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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?”

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

“If you had an alien race that looked like insects, then they would build robots to look like themselves, not to look like people.”