124 Quotes by Kevin J. Anderson

We sat around on a hotel balcony with a bottle of wine and tried to figure out how you would go about blowing up a planet. That’s the kind of conversations science fiction writers have when they get together. We don’t talk about football or anything like that.

We must think beyond ourselves.

The best enemies are fabricated enemies for two reasons: one, we have nothing to worry about, and two, the populace falls in line.

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

All life is a series of seemingly insignificant tasks and decisions, culminating in the definition of an individual and her purpose in life.

Mama was making a fresh pot of coffee. She’d make it weak and complain that it tasted funny being ground up right there on the spot instead of coming out of a can all ready to brew.

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.

Somebody hates vampires, Mr. Chambeaux, but I have no idea who or why. Haven’t they read Twilight?

Well, I know that George Lucas doesn’t like it at all. When I was working on The Illustrated Star Wars Universe, he told me that he would be happy if every copy could be tracked down and smashed...