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Kevin J. Anderson

" 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 , Writer , Research

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" 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 , Meaning

" 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

People , Race , Insects

" We wanted to write the first prequels as a story that anyone could pick up. "

Kevin J. Anderson

First

" 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

Imagination , Ideas , Waiting

" 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

President , Writer , Dad , Mom

" 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

Income

" 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

Writers , Science , Talk , Football , Fiction , Wine

" 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

Universe , Fact , May

" 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

Death , Time , Books , Successful , Silly

" 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

Letters

" 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

Projects

" 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

People , Policy

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