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" Of course you don't make any noise in space, because there's no air. "
Kevin J. Anderson
Because
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Air
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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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Remember
Somebody
" 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
" 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
" 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
" I sold my very first novel when I was 24 or 25 years old. "
Kevin J. Anderson
Sold
First
Novel
" 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
Spell
Words
Way
" 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
" 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
" 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. "
Kevin J. Anderson
Book
Science
Time
" 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 mean, I wasn't stupid. I knew we'd make money and sell a lot of Dune books. "
Kevin J. Anderson
Mean
Knew
Books
" We wanted to write the first prequels as a story that anyone could pick up. "
Kevin J. Anderson
First
Pick
Story
" I think now I'm up to something like 85 different titles that I've published. "
Kevin J. Anderson
Titles
Different
Like
" 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. "
Kevin J. Anderson
You
Me
Realize
" If I could go back in time and tell my younger self that eventually that I'd become very successful writing Dune books after Frank Herbert's death, I would have laughed myself silly, I think, at how strange that prospect would be. "
Kevin J. Anderson
Writing
Myself
Death
" 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
" 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
" 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
" There is grand romance in The Lord of the Rings. It's an important part of epic literature. "
Kevin J. Anderson
Literature
Romance
Important
" 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
" 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
" 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 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
" 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
" 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
" 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
" 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
" Every spare second I would write, somehow. On my lunch hour, too. "
Kevin J. Anderson
Spare
Too
Would
" 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
" Each book will have a lot of cliffhangers, because I like that. "
Kevin J. Anderson
Lot
Each
Book