Kevin J. Anderson Quotes
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There is grand romance in The Lord of the Rings. It's an important part of epic literature.
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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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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.
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We wanted to write the first prequels as a story that anyone could pick up.
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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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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.
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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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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.
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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.
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Every spare second I would write, somehow. On my lunch hour, too.