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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
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Kevin J. Anderson
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: March 27
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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.
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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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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.
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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.
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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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Every spare second I would write, somehow. On my lunch hour, too.
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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.
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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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