Kevin J. Anderson

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

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

“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.”

“There is grand romance in The Lord of the Rings. It's an important part of epic literature.”

“Scully,' [Mulder] said, his voice quiet and serious, 'with the... unorthodox explanations I often find when studying the evidence, I know you're always skeptical-but every time you're at least fair to me. You respect my opinion, even when you don't agree with it.' He looked at his hands. 'I don't know if I've ever told you, but I really appreciate that.'She looked at him and smiled. 'You've told me, Mulder. Maybe not in words... but you've told me.”

“A moment of consideration often prevents a thousand apologies”

“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.”

“Every spare second I would write, somehow. On my lunch hour, too.”

“I always turn in my books on time, so you can always count on a book coming out when it's supposed to.”

“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.”

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

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

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

“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.”

“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.”

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