Quotes from Kevin J. Anderson

The beginning is the end is the beginning.

So, I've decided to take him down to the tavern where he can meet real people and hear real adventures. That'll cure him of that fairy-tale nonsense before it sets in too deeply. (I'm no stranger to nonsense, having done plenty of it over the course of my own life, but at least I know the difference.)

There's more riding on this particular Christmas than ever before, and I'm coming apart at the seams. I need you to find my stolen property before Christmas Eve, or there'll be no joy to the world, no ho-ho-ho, no holly jolly, no Feliz in the Navidad, no Frohe in the Weihnachten, no Merry in the Christmas.

But he had been invited to a game. An adventure. Adventures were often uncomfortable, but never boring. He composed an email to Kelly whose email was—Asil sighed—[email protected] and arranged to meet her at his favorite Thai restaurant

I even let NORAD track me every year.

Dreams shine brightest when they remain only dreams, because reality becomes prosaic all too quickly.

Leia Organa married Han Solo; and together they had three children.

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

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 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.

Dune is the bestselling science fiction book of all time. It's something you really need to read in your lifetime. If you're going to read The Lord of the Rings, which everyone should, then you have to read Dune, too.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.