C.J. Anderson Quotes

Even last year I was watching the Celtics and I could see the offense was disheveled.

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.

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

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.

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!

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

My wife and I are involved in writing/publishing/promotion twenty-four/seven. It isn't a day job; it's life.

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.

They say that Heaven is like TV... a perfect little world, that doesn't really need you.

Long live the beauty that comes down and through and onto all of us.

So many things have happened to me in my life that I could be phobic about.

You need to try to master the ability to feel sad without actually being sad.

When love is gone, there's always justice.

It's a little hard to speak when you're not supposed to move.

Gut level is a good level to deal with life, and for me, I have to say that Buddhism makes sense for me because it's how I'm an artist.

Life goes by so fast. It's really - and a lot of times things happen so fast you don't know - how should I react.

I wanted to impress people because I was kind of a kid who was lost in the crowd - was sort of my, feeling about childhood was being part of a big family.

I'm one of the first Americans who wasn't a torturer or an interrogator.

I am a New Yorker, one; I'm an artist, two; I'm a woman, three.

Being an artist is a totally godlike thing to do - and I have a god complex.

I don't care about being famous or having a lot of people go, "She's really good."

I think a lot of people in Washington are extremely suspicious of NASA.

I have written a few children's books. The first book that I wrote was for children. It was called "The Package", and it was a mystery story in pictures. It had no words.

No single person who has ever lived will be able to tell you what happens. Period. Nobody's right and nobody's wrong.

I really trust audiences as having excellent taste, for the most part.

My work is more about trying to ask good questions and not trying to come up with big shows. Every fashion company is doing that, every car company is doing that.

Why do you have to translate and decode things? Just let the image be. It will have a special kind of reality that it won't once it's decoded.

I see and write things first as an artist, second as a woman, and third as a New Yorker. All three have built-in perspectives that aren't neutral.

It's the tradition of American writers getting away in order to see the country - to get a better view.

Art can be engaged in the world without being specifically politically engaged.

The right to carry a gun has nothing to do with the rights of other people.

I realized why movie scores are mostly strings, because it really frees your eyes to look around.

I wanted to stay hooked because it was the first time I've been part of the tradition where forgetting was just fine. You do it, you try, you forget, you fail.

I'm actually not someone who believes in heaven or anything like that.

That's really a very different experience: You don't have to look to be understood. You're already understood.

Apologies mean nothing if you don't mean it.

I make it through the first two weeks of school without a nuclear meltdown.

I don't say anything and I feel awful. I tell somebody and I feel worse. I'm having trouble finding a middle ground.

It's a shame we can't just admit that we failed family living, sell the house, split up the money, and get on with our lives.

I don’t know what I’m doing in the next five minutes and she has the next ten years figured out. I’ll worry about making it out of ninth grade alive. Then I’ll think about a career path.

be aggressive, BE-BE Aggressive! B-E A-G-G-R-E-S-S-I-V-E

I am not going to think about it. It was ugly, but it’s over, and I’m not going to think about it.