Kevin J. Anderson Famous Quotes and Saying

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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A moment of consideration often prevents a thousand apologies

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consideration apology moments

Wouldn't you like to have an augmented memory chip that you could plug into your head so you don't have to look everything up and remember everything?

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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.

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focus keys real

One of the things that was kind of shocking for humans... was to come to terms with was the fact that, hey, we may not be the center of the universe.

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hey may facts

I got to spend all of my time every day at work reading and editing papers about cutting-edge technical research and getting paid for it. Then I'd go home at night and turn what I learned into science fiction stories.

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There will come a time of fire and night, when enemies rise and empires fall, when the stars themselves begin to die.

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stars night fall

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

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Every life has a destiny... the trick is to discover it before then end of your life. Otherwise, you will have too many regrets.

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destiny regret wisdom

We each have our lives... What matters is not how long those lives last, but what we do with them.

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what-matters lasts long

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.

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garden flower beautiful

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.

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taste people needs

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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realizing literature want

The people who make policy decisions should damned well know what they are talking about before they make the decisions. There is nobody who is an expert on cloning who would be afraid after seeing Attack of the Clones.

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decision talking people

I'm talking to you and it's basically a direct communication, whereas if I'm writing a letter to you and you read the letter, there are like 12 extra deconstruction and reconstruction steps in the communication.

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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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imagination writing ideas

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.

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ties secret looks

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

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novel years firsts

Telling your story out loud is the way human beings communicate. We don't normally think up words, translate how to spell them and then move our fingers up and down over this randomly arranged set of keys to make the same letters appear on a screen.

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keys moving thinking

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.

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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.

A moment of consideration often prevents a thousand apologies

Wouldn't you like to have an augmented memory chip that you could plug into your head so you don't have to look everything up and remember everything?

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.

One of the things that was kind of shocking for humans... was to come to terms with was the fact that, hey, we may not be the center of the universe.

I got to spend all of my time every day at work reading and editing papers about cutting-edge technical research and getting paid for it. Then I'd go home at night and turn what I learned into science fiction stories.

There will come a time of fire and night, when enemies rise and empires fall, when the stars themselves begin to die.

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

Every life has a destiny... the trick is to discover it before then end of your life. Otherwise, you will have too many regrets.

We each have our lives... What matters is not how long those lives last, but what we do with them.

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.

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.

The people who make policy decisions should damned well know what they are talking about before they make the decisions. There is nobody who is an expert on cloning who would be afraid after seeing Attack of the Clones.

I'm talking to you and it's basically a direct communication, whereas if I'm writing a letter to you and you read the letter, there are like 12 extra deconstruction and reconstruction steps in the communication.

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.

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.

Telling your story out loud is the way human beings communicate. We don't normally think up words, translate how to spell them and then move our fingers up and down over this randomly arranged set of keys to make the same letters appear on a screen.

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.

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