Kevin J. Anderson Quotes

• A moment of consideration often prevents a thousand apologies.

  Kevin J. Anderson

  Topics in Wisdom

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

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  Topics in Religion

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

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  Topics in Religion

• 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?

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

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• 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.

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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

• The people who make policy decisions should damned well know what they are talking about before they make the decisions. There is nobody who is an expert on cloning who would be afraid after seeing Attack of the Clones.

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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.

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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.

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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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• 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.

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

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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.

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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.

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• 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.

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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.

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

  Kevin J. Anderson

Kevin J. Anderson (39)

Birth:	27th March, 1962
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Author

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