Quotes
Kevin J. Anderson
In the book you have a planet where the trees are sentient and this special group of people can communicate with them. But instead of trees walking around like the Ents in The Lord of the Rings, these trees sit there and love to experience other things vicariously, because they have roots; they can't walk around and do things.
Kevin J. Anderson
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
If you started getting Hiltons up in orbit, they would be full every day of the year. Because people would pay to go up there.
Kevin J. Anderson
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
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
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
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
I've climbed all the 14,000 foot peaks here in Colorado and I'm doing another one this coming Saturday. You can get into a sort of fugue state and concentrate without interruption about your scene or your world or your character or whatever you're doing.
Kevin J. Anderson
I've been learning all the different aspects of how to juggle multiple plotlines, how to build the worlds and the technologies and the characters, the monsters and everything, and I wanted to write something that was all my own, because my two biggest writing successes in my writing career have been the Dune books and the Star Wars books.
Kevin J. Anderson
I've been hiking up in the snow in the Sierra Nevadas when I was writing a Star Wars scene where they're on a polar ice cap of another planet. So that's direct and obvious sensory input.