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Kevin J. Anderson
Once I finally sold my first book, at the age of 25-this was after hundreds and hundreds of rejection letters-once I got my foot in the door, it's like they grabbed my foot and dragged the rest of my leg in.
Kevin J. Anderson
Of course you don't make any noise in space, because there's no air.
Kevin J. Anderson
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
My schedule is to get up at 6:30 or 7:00 and I'll usually work out and have breakfast and start writing by, say, 8:30 in the morning. I work non-stop until I have to stop to make supper.
Kevin J. Anderson
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
Jules Verne's real life is pretty much sanitized for the book. I did lots of research on him and the more I read, the more I started to hate him. He was really a putz.
Kevin J. Anderson
Jules Verne really and truly was a good friend of Alexander Dumas, he was trying to write for Dumas, but Dumas got into financial troubles and told Verne to go write his own stuff instead. Then Dumas fled France.
Kevin J. Anderson
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
It used to be that if somebody was writing a 700-page book, you would give them a couple of years to write it. You really couldn't expect it any faster than that. Now I'm writing a 700-page book in the Seven Suns series and an 800-page book in the Dune series with Brian every year, plus two or three other books.
Kevin J. Anderson
Isaac Asimov had computers the size of planets and things like that. Which were great concepts at the time they came out, but when you read them now, they seem a little bit quaint and old-fashioned. Whereas, Frank Herbert, was almost utterly separated from technology.