Kevin J Anderson Quotes

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. ~ 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

Each life is the sum total of its moments. ~ Kevin J. Anderson

There is grand romance in The Lord of the Rings. It's an important part of epic literature. ~ Kevin J. Anderson

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. ~ 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. ~ Kevin J. Anderson

Each book will have a lot of cliffhangers, because I like that. ~ Kevin J. Anderson

SHADOW PROWLER is a fresh, exuberant take on territory that will be familiar to all fans of classic high fantasy. Alexey Pehov introduces a cast of charming, quirky, unsavory, even loathesome characters in a fast-paced, entertaining adventure. ~ Kevin J. Anderson

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? ~ Kevin J. Anderson

The world was her oyster, except she didn't care for oysters. Better yet, the world was her raspberry. She liked raspberries. ~ Kevin J. Anderson

Do you want Columbus to go across the ocean, or do you want to put a message in a bottle and hope that it lands somewhere? I'd rather have actual people be there. Whether they look like Americans or like the inhabitants of some other country, depends on who has the most drive. ~ Kevin J. Anderson

The small room was furnished with little more than odd smells and disappointment. ~ Kevin J. Anderson

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

On second glance, though, the activities didn't seem regimented or organized enough to have been put together by the Earth military. The EDF tended to lay out everything in straight lines and perfect grids. Conversely, this work seemed energetic and independent, as if each unit was following only a general master plan. ~ Kevin J. Anderson

So you and the lovely Agent Scully are going down to investigate?' Frohike said, sounding hopeful.
'Yeah, we leave for Cancun tomorrow.'
'Our tax dollars at work,' Langly snorted.
'I'd love to see Agent Scully with a healthy tropical tan,' Frohike said.
'Down, Frohike,' Mulder said. ~ Kevin J. Anderson

Optimism is the best fertilizer. ~ Kevin J. Anderson

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. ~ Kevin J. Anderson

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. ~ Kevin J. Anderson

Dreamers have a hidden strength that is often mistaken for meekness by those who have power." The ~ Kevin J. Anderson

Some presters might tell you never to question, but that is tantamount to telling you not to think. Odun created us to explore, to experience. There is no harm in asking questions ... ~ Kevin J. Anderson

Luke smiled at his friend. "I seem to remember you called the Force a 'hokey religion' when I first met you."
Han looked away, embarrassed. "Well, I've gotten smarter since then. ~ Kevin J. Anderson

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. ~ Kevin J. Anderson

I think that somebody with the resources and innovation and the idea is going to come out of nowhere and come up with a successful space travel program. ~ Kevin J. Anderson

The future was glorious once. It was filled with sleek silver spaceships, lunar colonies, and galactic empires. The horizon seemed within reach; we could almost grasp the stars if we would but try. ~ Kevin J. Anderson

My stories aren't for everyone - they were never meant to be - but ~ Kevin J. Anderson

It's just human, or inhuman, nature: People will find a way to make a big deal out of their differences-the smaller, the better. It reminded me of the Mantagues and the Capulets (if I wanted to think highbrow), or the Hatfields and the McCoys (if I wanted to go lowbrow) ... or the Jets and the Sharks (if I happened to feel musical). ~ Kevin J. Anderson

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 ... ~ Kevin J. Anderson

Patrick Rothfuss gives us a fabulous debut, standing firmly on the main stage of the fantasy genre and needing no warm-up act. Jordan and Goodkind must be looking nervously over their shoulders! ~ Kevin J. Anderson

We must think beyond ourselves ~ Kevin J. Anderson

Scully,' [Mulder] said, his voice quiet and serious, 'with the ... unorthodox explanations I often find when studying the evidence, I know you're always skeptical-but every time you're at least fair to me. You respect my opinion, even when you don't agree with it.' He looked at his hands. 'I don't know if I've ever told you, but I really appreciate that.'
She looked at him and smiled. 'You've told me, Mulder. Maybe not in words ... but you've told me. ~ Kevin J. Anderson

Trying to kill your own father, dueling with a clone of yourself, serving the Dark Side for the Emperor. If that's what it takes to be a powerful Jedi, maybe I don't want the job! ~ Kevin J. Anderson

Scars tell stories of who we are and what we did. A person without marks hasn't done anything. ~ Kevin J. Anderson

A moment of consideration often prevents a thousand apologies ~ Kevin J. Anderson

While death isn't a sure thing anymore, taxes still are. ~ Kevin J. Anderson

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. ~ Kevin J. Anderson

That night the first frost of autumn struck Tucker's Grove. It crept up from the ground, snaring the fragile roots of plants. It emerged from the air, etching its signature on window-panes. A portent. The year was nearing its end. Things would die soon. ~ Kevin J. Anderson

Dune is the bestselling science fiction book of all time. It's something you really need to read in your lifetime. If you're going to read The Lord of the Rings, which everyone should, then you have to read Dune, too. ~ Kevin J. Anderson

You're being prejudiced, McGoo. Even unnaturals want love. ~ Kevin J. Anderson

The best place to start an adventure is with a quiet, perfect life ... and someone who realizes that it can't possibly be enough. ~ Kevin J. Anderson

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

Leave it to a Jedi never to give you a straight answer. ~ Kevin J. Anderson

Of course you don't make any noise in space, because there's no air. ~ Kevin J. Anderson

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. ~ Kevin J. Anderson

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. ~ Kevin J. Anderson

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. ~ Kevin J. Anderson

For a feature in next month's issue of Prog magazine, the photographer spent many hours setting up a photo shoot of me with part of my music collection in my writing office. Since I do most of my writing outside in nature, we felt this shot was most representative. ~ Kevin J. Anderson

I sold my very first novel when I was 24 or 25 years old. ~ Kevin J. Anderson

I always turn in my books on time, so you can always count on a book coming out when it's supposed to. ~ Kevin J. Anderson

I don't know how to be anything but pretend," I replied, and it ached in me how true that really was. "But if I could be real, I'd be real for you. ~ R. J. Anderson

Your protagonist suffers from mental illness, but that fact is not central to the ~ Leslie J. Anderson

The two pillars of the Toyota production system are just-in-time and automation with a human touch, or autonomation. ~ David J. Anderson

An act of leadership is to say that whatever's happening now is not good enough and suggest or show that we can do better. If you don't have that, then you don't have the catalyst for continuous improvement. ~ David J. Anderson

If a boy with Albert Einstein's brain had been born in Germany in the dark ages, there would have been no scientific revolution emanating from him. If a girl with Marie Curie's mind had been born in a remote Indian village twenty years ago, today she'd probably be harvesting rice and struggling to raise her children. ~ Chris J. Anderson

My love!" Kevin said. "You must rise. Get up! Get up so far into the future, we can meet and I can go to your bakery and eat the royal hell out of your croissants! ~ T.J. Klune

In a sense, 'Twin Peaks' never really went away. They've got a 'Twin Peaks' convention up in Washington every year, and I'm pretty much recognized on a fairly regular basis from 'Twin Peaks,' so I feel like it never really got too far away. ~ Michael J. Anderson

I disliked numbers, and they didn't think much of me either. ~ R. J. Anderson

I'm a writer. I write stuff. ~ Kevin J.J. Carpenter

What most new entrepreneurs don't realize is that before you can lead a business, or a family, or a ministry, or even just another person, you have to be the leader of yourself, first. ~ Kevin J. Donaldson

All the trauma terrorized her feelings. She sensed them harden. Fade. Vanish. Her emotions decayed and disintegrated like a waning timeworn woman would forget her own name and everything she loved. No, she thought. I won't let this happen. I will never stop feeling. No matter what. This is the bad news, she said. I must be insanely strong to survive this. This is the good news: I am insanely strong. She put on the protective suit. She will go outside. ~ C.J. Anderson

Just say it, she thought. Say what everyone in this bunker is thinking. Say what we all know to be true. The truth that we are all going to die down here, and death is the end. Nobody wakes up to a heaven or paradise. Your life will be gone. You will be gone. Forever. Uncover the truth. Tear off the bandages of delusion. Open your hearts and minds to the real world. We were doomed the day we were born. We lived and we will die and the only immortals are the people who did something worth remembering while they lived. My genetics are prime. I am pleasing to the eyes of man and machine. A dripping fountain of pleasure. Their organic sanctuary. And in time? Aging. Fading. Graying. What am I? Who am I? What makes me human? Emotions? My conscience? The soul is an old testament myth. No one shall ascend anywhere except into annihilation. The dust of earth and stars are the only eternals, she said. ~ C.J. Anderson

Don't complain about the people that are drawn to you. Maybe if you change your bait, you'll catch a different fish. ~ Jasmine J. Anderson

An Economic Model for Lean W ~ David J. Anderson

There is no God out here, she said. Then she wandered out into the darkness like a foolish blindfaithed believer. ~ C.J. Anderson

Business success depends on good business leadership, and that means hiring and partnering with only the people your business really needs. These are the smart, hardworking people who know your industry as well as, or even better than, you. ~ Kevin J. Donaldson

It's okay to be afraid. Just don't let it get the best of you. If you do, it will slowly creep inside you until you're completely paralyzed. Fear has that effect, unless you bravely face it head-on. When you accept fear, it actually makes you stronger. ~ Kevin J. Donaldson

The truth is that there is a world of difference between looking beautiful and being beautiful. ~ Kevin J. Vanhoozer

At a conference, people don't come to a talk to be sold to. As soon as they understand that might be your agenda, they will flee to the safety of their email inbox. It's ~ Chris J. Anderson

You know what they say, once you go dragon, all the rest is just laggin'."
"No one says that," I said. "Absolutely no one. ~ T.J. Klune

There should be no grand, centralized choice made in the ivory tower. The minor cost-efficient advantage of the whole staff being trained in one method is far outweighed by the problems created - and the real cost, in ROI terms - by using the wrong process for the job. ~ David J. Anderson

for the average team, insisting on writing tests first, before functional coding, improves quality. ~ David J. Anderson

School will always be there, Life won't ~ Jasmine J. Anderson

Final fantasy of her. Lauren Vasquez. His last prize. Even if the machines and the other survivors forgot him she never would. A confident grin on his unshaven face. Satisfying knowledge of his domination over the self-righteous Spanish woman. At least she will remember my name. The elevator rumbled as it approached the surface. Automated vocal warnings of radiation taunted him like cruel revilers at the cross of Christ. Time to die. ~ C.J. Anderson

Sin? Sin is a delusional sickness spawned to peddle a delusional treatment. ~ C.J. Anderson

Don't think that way, she whispered. The dream will come true. ~ C.J. Anderson

Your business should serve specific needs for specific demographics of people. That way, your marketing efforts will be more laser-focused and effective. ~ Kevin J. Donaldson

There is a massive, irreconcilable conflict between science and religion. Religion was humanity's original cosmology, biology and anthropology. It provided explanations for the origin of the world, life and humans. Science now gives us increasingly complete explanations for those big three. We know the origins of the universe, the physics of the big bang and how the basic chemical elements formed in supernovas. We know that life on this planet originated about 4 billion years ago, and we are all descendants of that original replicating molecule. Thanks to Darwin we know that natural selection is the only workable explanation for the design and variety of all life on this planet. Paleoanthropologists and geneticists have reconstructed much of the human tree of life. We are risen apes, not fallen angels. We are the most successful and last surviving African hominid. Every single person on this Earth, all 7 billion of us, arose 50,000 years ago from small bands of African hunter-gatherers, a total population of somewhere between 600 and 2,000 individuals. ~ J. Anderson Thomson

We look to artists to feel for us, to suffer and rejoice, to describe the heights of their passionate response to life so that we can enjoy them from a safe distance. . . . We look to artists to stop time for us, to break the cycle of birth and death and temporarily put an end to life's processes. It is too much of a whelm for any one person to face up to without going into sensory overload. Artists, on the other hand, court that intensity. We ask artists to fill our lives with a cavalcade of fresh sights and insights, the way life was for us when we were children and everything was new.39 ~ Cameron J Anderson

Everything is so vast. It's humbling to remember just how small we really are. ~ T.J. Klune

This is what happens to the brain of those living with mental illnesses (more accurately, "brain illnesses"). The brain does not function as it should; life is out of control. The brain alters our bodies; thoughts are distorted, emotions are unregulated, and behaviors we once thought could never occur happen. One of the most challenging, exhausting, and painful phenomena we do as humans is to live and survive with these changes in our minds. The toll it takes on an individual's body and the people in their lives is, tragically, often too much to bear.

-Dr. Daniel J. Reidenberg ~ Kevin Hines

An interesting side effect of pull systems is that they limit work-in-progress (WIP) to some agreed-upon quantity, ~ David J. Anderson

I was six years old, watching my pregnant mother wash the dishes. Cutlery clinked, filling the air with sparkling bursts of colour.
'Do it again!' I begged her, bouncing in my seat.
My mother glanced back at me. 'Do what?'
'Make the stars.'
'Stars?'
It never occurred to me that she couldn't' see what I was seeing. 'The gold ones', I said.
'I don't know what you're talking about.' she replied, and with a child's impatience, I hopped down from my stool to show her.
'Like this,' I said, taking two spoons and clanging them together. Each clink produced another starburst expanding luminous through the air between us.
'You mean,' said my mother slowly, 'the sound makes you think of the stars?'
'No, it makes the stars.. ~ R. J. Anderson

Even better. We're going to be murdered in our beds by infidels. ~ J. Anderson Coats

What would happen if you stopped fighting, and gave yourself permission to feel? Not just the good things, but everything? ~ R. J. Anderson