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" I had a minor in Russian history, and this was at the time when the big Cold War was going on. "
Kevin J. Anderson
Cold War
War
Time
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" I don't think the author should make the reader do that much work to remember who somebody is. "
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Somebody
" 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
Science
Time
Work
" 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. "
Kevin J. Anderson
Language
Way
Speak
" 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
You
Wine
Football
" I think now I'm up to something like 85 different titles that I've published. "
Kevin J. Anderson
Titles
Different
Like
" Of course you don't make any noise in space, because there's no air. "
Kevin J. Anderson
Because
Space
Air
" Each book will have a lot of cliffhangers, because I like that. "
Kevin J. Anderson
Lot
Each
Book
" 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
Job
Research
Rat
" 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
Feedback
Drive
Always
" There is grand romance in The Lord of the Rings. It's an important part of epic literature. "
Kevin J. Anderson
Literature
Romance
Important
" 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. "
Kevin J. Anderson
She
Now
Same
" 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
May
Come
Fact
" 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. "
Kevin J. Anderson
Politics
Feel
You
" 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
Look
You
Like
" 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. "
Kevin J. Anderson
You
Think
See
" 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
People
You
Love
" 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
Look
You
Robots
" 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
Waiting
Like
Back
" I mean, I wasn't stupid. I knew we'd make money and sell a lot of Dune books. "
Kevin J. Anderson
Mean
Knew
Books
" 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. "
Kevin J. Anderson
You
Communication
Talking
" I sold my very first novel when I was 24 or 25 years old. "
Kevin J. Anderson
Sold
First
Novel
" 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. "
Kevin J. Anderson
Look
Bond
Behind
" 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. "
Kevin J. Anderson
Travel
Space
Think
" 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
Decisions
Talking
Seeing
" Every spare second I would write, somehow. On my lunch hour, too. "
Kevin J. Anderson
Spare
Too
Would
" Do you want Columbus to go across the ocean, or do you want to put a message in a bottle and hope that it lands somewhere? I'd rather have actual people be there. Whether they look like Americans or like the inhabitants of some other country, depends on who has the most drive. "
Kevin J. Anderson
Go
Drive
Columbus
" We wanted to write the first prequels as a story that anyone could pick up. "
Kevin J. Anderson
First
Pick
Story
" 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. "
Kevin J. Anderson
Smart
Book
Evil
" 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. "
Kevin J. Anderson
Say
Government
Me
" I always turn in my books on time, so you can always count on a book coming out when it's supposed to. "
Kevin J. Anderson
Always
Time
Book