American - Writer | March 27, 1962 -
Every spare second I would write, somehow. On my lunch hour, too.
Kevin J. Anderson
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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.
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I think now I'm up to something like 85 different titles that I've published.
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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.
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Of course you don't make any noise in space, because there's no air.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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If you had an alien race that looked like insects, then they would build robots to look like themselves, not to look like people.
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There is grand romance in The Lord of the Rings. It's an important part of epic literature.
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I don't think the author should make the reader do that much work to remember who somebody is.
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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.
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