Kevin J. Anderson Quotes

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• A moment of consideration often prevents a thousand apologies

  Kevin J. Anderson

  Apology, Moments, Consideration

  Kevin J. Anderson (2011). “Hidden Empire: The Saga Of Seven Suns - Book One”, p.519, Simon and Schuster

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• 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.

  Kevin J. Anderson

  Writing, Stories, Littles

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• 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.

  Kevin J. Anderson

  Real, Keys, Focus

  "Author Spotlight: Kevin J. Anderson & Sherrilyn Kenyon". Interview with Liz Argall, www.lightspeedmagazine.com. August 2016.

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

  Kevin J. Anderson

  Stars, Fall, Night

  Kevin J. Anderson (2011). “Of Fire and Night”, p.538, Simon and Schuster

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

  Kevin J. Anderson

  Wisdom, Regret, Destiny

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• 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.

  Kevin J. Anderson

  Talking, People, Decision

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• 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.

  Kevin J. Anderson

  Stars, War, Would Be

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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.

  Kevin J. Anderson

  Kings, People, Looks

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

  Kevin J. Anderson

  Adventure, Perfect, Quiet

  Kevin J. Anderson, Neil Peart (2012). “Clockwork Angels: The Novel”, p.13, ECW Press

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• 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.

  Kevin J. Anderson

  People, Needs, Taste

  "Author Spotlight: Kevin J. Anderson & Sherrilyn Kenyon". Interview with Liz Argall, www.lightspeedmagazine.com. August 2016.

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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.

  Kevin J. Anderson

  Football, Writing, Wine

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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.

  Kevin J. Anderson

  Writing, Ideas, Imagination

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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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• I got to spend all of my time every day at work reading and editing papers about cutting-edge technical research and getting paid for it. Then I'd go home at night and turn what I learned into science fiction stories.

  Kevin J. Anderson

  Reading, Home, Cutting

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

  Kevin J. Anderson

  What Matters, Long, Lasts

  Kevin J. Anderson (2011). “Hidden Empire: The Saga Of Seven Suns - Book One”, p.234, Simon and Schuster

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• We must think beyond ourselves

  Kevin J. Anderson

  Thinking

  Kevin J. Anderson (2011). “A Forest of Stars: The Saga Of Seven Suns - BOOK TWO”, p.178, Simon and Schuster

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• When tending a vast and beautiful garden, you have to plant many seeds, never knowing ahead of time which ones will germinate, which will produce the most glorious flowers, which will bear the sweetest fruit. A good gardener plants them all, tends and nurtures them, and wishes them well. Optimism is the best fertilizer.

  Kevin J. Anderson

  Beautiful, Flower, Garden

  Kevin J. Anderson, Neil Peart (2012). “Clockwork Angels: The Novel”, p.8, ECW Press

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• 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.

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  Jobs, Eight, Years

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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.

  Kevin J. Anderson

  Hey, May, Facts

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• 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?

  Kevin J. Anderson

  Memories, Remembers Everything, Looks

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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

  Race, People, Robots

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

  Kevin J. Anderson

  Rooms, Arguing, Dogma

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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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• 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 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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