Kevin J. Anderson Quotes

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.

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

A moment of consideration often prevents a thousand apologies

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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?

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.

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.

The real key is time management and being able to focus on what you need to, on using every available minute to accomplish something that needs to be done.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

We must think beyond ourselves

There will come a time of fire and night, when enemies rise and empires fall, when the stars themselves begin to die.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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…

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