Kevin J. Anderson

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

“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.”

“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.”

“We must think beyond ourselves”

“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.”

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

“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.”

“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.”

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

“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.”

“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.”

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

“I am serving the purpose for which I was designed, therefore I am satisfied with my existence.”

“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.”

“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?”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“If you had an alien race that looked like insects, then they would build robots to look like themselves, not to look like people.”

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