124 Quotes by Kevin J. Anderson

The great secret behind classified projects is that most of them are so utterly boring and uninteresting that James Bond wouldn't even take a second look at them.

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

That's what people need to remember about reviewers; opinions can be all over the spectrum, and you just need to find a reviewer whose tastes match your own.

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.

My wife and I are involved in writing/publishing/promotion twenty-four/seven. It isn't a day job; it's life.

The real key is time management and being able to focus on what you need to, on using every available minute to accomplish something that needs to be done.

When tending a vast and beautiful garden, you have to plant many seeds, never knowing ahead of time which ones will germinate, which will produce the most glorious flowers, which will bear the sweetest fruit. A good gardener plants them all, tends and nurtures them, and wishes them well. Optimism is the best fertilizer.

A moment of consideration often prevents a thousand apologies

A moment of consideration often prevents a thousand apologies.