Top 60 Kevin J. Anderson Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “A moment of consideration often prevents a thousand apologies.”

— Kevin J. Anderson

2. “We must think beyond ourselves.”

— Kevin J. Anderson

3. “All life is a series of seemingly insignificant tasks and decisions, culminating in the definition of an individual and her purpose in life.”

— Kevin J. Anderson

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

— Kevin J. Anderson

5. “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

6. “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

7. “SHADOW PROWLER is a fresh, exuberant take on territory that will be familiar to all fans of classic high fantasy. Alexey Pehov introduces a cast of charming, quirky, unsavory, even loathesome characters in a fast-paced, entertaining adventure.”

— Kevin J. Anderson

8. “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

9. “Well, I know that George Lucas doesn’t like it at all. When I was working on The Illustrated Star Wars Universe, he told me that he would be happy if every copy could be tracked down and smashed...”

— Kevin J. Anderson

10. “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

11. “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

12. “The small room was furnished with little more than odd smells and disappointment.”

— Kevin J. Anderson

13. “Somebody hates vampires, Mr. Chambeaux, but I have no idea who or why. Haven’t they read Twilight?”

— Kevin J. Anderson

14. “I have a feeling we’re mooning a mean junkyard dog, all brave and laughing – until the dog’s leash breaks.”

— Kevin J. Anderson

15. “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

16. “Of course you don’t make any noise in space, because there’s no air.”

— Kevin J. Anderson

17. “Every life has a destiny... the trick is to discover it before then end of your life. Otherwise, you will have too many regrets.”

— Kevin J. Anderson

18. “The world was her oyster, except she didn’t care for oysters. Better yet, the world was her raspberry. She liked raspberries.”

— Kevin J. Anderson

19. “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

20. “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

21. “Each book will have a lot of cliffhangers, because I like that.”

— Kevin J. Anderson

22. “I think now I’m up to something like 85 different titles that I’ve published.”

— Kevin J. Anderson

23. “He didn’t say a word, but he grew coldly, murderously furious.”

— Kevin J. Anderson

24. “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

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25. “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

26. “I mean, I wasn’t stupid. I knew we’d make money and sell a lot of Dune books.”

— Kevin J. Anderson

27. “We say the poison is in the dose. The same herb that can relieve a condition can also kill a patient if the dose be too large. And sometimes the efficacious does is large, so near the lethal dose, we have to work by very small increments to avoid taking a life.”

— Kevin J. Anderson

28. “All of the stray asbestos fibers would certainly have been removed with meticulous care. The contractors were, after all, government employees. That thought sparked uneasiness in him all over again.”

— Kevin J. Anderson

29. “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

30. “Women died in childbirth, just as men did on the battlefield, and in both cases it was easier to convince the young and foolhardy to do it, to use them up before they were so old that their bodies refused to do what was necessary.”

— Kevin J. Anderson

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

— Kevin J. Anderson

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32. “Trying to kill your own father, dueling with a clone of yourself, serving the Dark Side for the Emperor. If that’s what it takes to be a powerful Jedi, maybe I don’t want the job!”

— Kevin J. Anderson

33. “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

34. “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

35. “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

36. “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

37. “I don’t think the author should make the reader do that much work to remember who somebody is.”

— Kevin J. Anderson

38. “For a feature in next month’s issue of Prog magazine, the photographer spent many hours setting up a photo shoot of me with part of my music collection in my writing office. Since I do most of my writing outside in nature, we felt this shot was most representative.”

— Kevin J. Anderson

39. “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

40. “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

41. “We each have our lives... What matters is not how long those lives last, but what we do with them.”

— Kevin J. Anderson

42. “No, no, no – you don’t argue with concepts. You have to claim Dogma, and therefore leave no room for rational thought.”

— Kevin J. Anderson

43. “I sold my very first novel when I was 24 or 25 years old.”

— Kevin J. Anderson

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44. “A man like Zod is effective primarily in crisis situations. And so in order to hold on to his power, he has to create or maintain the state of emergency.”

— Kevin J. Anderson

45. “I had a minor in Russian history, and this was at the time when the big Cold War was going on.”

— Kevin J. Anderson

46. “You’re being prejudiced, McGoo. Even unnaturals want love.”

— Kevin J. Anderson

47. “Each life is the sum total of its moments.”

— Kevin J. Anderson

48. “The best enemies are fabricated enemies for two reasons: one, we have nothing to worry about, and two, the populace falls in line.”

— Kevin J. Anderson

49. “He looked up. His mouth stayed where it was and noise quit coming out of it. Yes, Asil thought, the other’s awe soothing the feathers that had been ruffled by the wait, I am beautiful.”

— Kevin J. Anderson

50. “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