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# Kevin J. Anderson

(1962)   Novelist   United States

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Kevin J. Anderson is a novelist from the United States, best known for *The X-Files*.

## Quick Facts About Kevin J. Anderson

Born March 27, 1962

Nationality United States

Profession Novelist

Notable works The X-Files

Spouse Rebecca Moesta

## About Kevin J. Anderson

Kevin James Anderson is an American science fiction author. He has written spin-off novels for Star Wars, StarCraft, Titan A.E. and The X-Files, and with Brian Herbert is the co-author of the Dune prequel series. His original works include the Saga of Seven Suns series and the Nebula Award–nominated Assemblers of Infinity. He has also written several comic books, including the Dark Horse Star Wars series Tales of the Jedi written in collaboration with Tom Veitch, Dark Horse Predator titles, and The X-Files titles for Topps. Some of Anderson's superhero novels include Enemies & Allies, about the first meeting of Batman and Superman, and The Last Days of Krypton, telling the story of how Superman's planet Krypton came to be destroyed.

##  Quotes by Kevin J. Anderson · Page 2

> [No, no, no - you don't argue with concepts. You have to claim Dogma, and therefore leave no room for rational thought.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kevin-j-anderson/no-no-no-you-don-t-argue-with-concepts-you-have-to-claim-dogma-and/)

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> [I had a minor in Russian history, and this was at the time when the big Cold War was going on.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kevin-j-anderson/i-had-a-minor-in-russian-history-and-this-was-at-the-time-when-the/)

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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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kevin-j-anderson/wouldn-t-you-like-to-have-an-augmented-memory-chip-that-you-could/)

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[Memory](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/memory/)

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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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kevin-j-anderson/it-was-like-there-was-a-pile-of-kindling-that-was-in-the-back-of-my/)

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[Ideas](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/ideas/)

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> [I want to make it so that so many things happen... that you didn't expect would happen in this series, that you…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kevin-j-anderson/i-want-to-make-it-so-that-so-many-things-happen-that-you-didn-t/)

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> [If I could go back in time and tell my younger self that eventually that I'd become very successful writing Dune books…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kevin-j-anderson/if-i-could-go-back-in-time-and-tell-my-younger-self-that-eventually/)

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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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kevin-j-anderson/my-total-year-s-income-from-working-as-hard-as-i-possibly-could-from/)

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> [I've had the same, full-time assistant and typist for eight or nine years now. She's read everything I've written, she types everything…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kevin-j-anderson/i-ve-had-the-same-full-time-assistant-and-typist-for-eight-or-nine/)

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> [If you look at the British royal family and take away the scandals and the goofy stuff that's going on, people love…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kevin-j-anderson/if-you-look-at-the-british-royal-family-and-take-away-the-scandals/)

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[British](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/british/)

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> [The great secret behind classified projects is that most of them are so utterly boring and uninteresting that James Bond wouldn't even…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kevin-j-anderson/the-great-secret-behind-classified-projects-is-that-most-of-them-are/)

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> [Do you want Columbus to go across the ocean, or do you want to put a message in a bottle and hope…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kevin-j-anderson/do-you-want-columbus-to-go-across-the-ocean-or-do-you-want-to-put-a/)

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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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kevin-j-anderson/we-sat-around-on-a-hotel-balcony-with-a-bottle-of-wine-and-tried-to/)

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[Conversations](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/conversations/)

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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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kevin-j-anderson/telling-your-story-out-loud-is-the-way-human-beings-communicate-we/)

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> [I wanted the feel in these books to be like an epic fantasy, with kings, queens, dukes and court politics, but of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kevin-j-anderson/i-wanted-the-feel-in-these-books-to-be-like-an-epic-fantasy-with/)

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[Books](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/books/)

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> [“The future was glorious once. It was filled with sleek silver spaceships, lunar colonies, and galactic empires. The horizon seemed within reach;…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kevin-j-anderson/the-future-was-glorious-once-it-was-filled-with-sleek-silver/)

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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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kevin-j-anderson/the-real-key-is-time-management-and-being-able-to-focus-on-what-you/)

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> [“Luke smiled at his friend. “I seem to remember you called the Force a ‘hokey religion’ when I first met you.” Han…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kevin-j-anderson/luke-smiled-at-his-friend-i-seem-to-remember-you-called-the-force-a/)

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[First met](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/first-met/)

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> [My dad is a bank president and my mom was an accountant and they didn't think that seeking the life of a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kevin-j-anderson/my-dad-is-a-bank-president-and-my-mom-was-an-accountant-and-they-didn/)

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[Dad](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/dad/)

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> [If you had an alien race that looked like insects, then they would build robots to look like themselves, not to look…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kevin-j-anderson/if-you-had-an-alien-race-that-looked-like-insects-then-they-would/)

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[Insects](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/insects/)

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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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kevin-j-anderson/i-always-had-this-non-stop-drive-i-had-to-keep-sending-stories-out/)

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> [I did several interesting jobs, working in restaurants, I worked at a lab rat farm, feeding and watering all these rats. Then…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kevin-j-anderson/i-did-several-interesting-jobs-working-in-restaurants-i-worked-at-a/)

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> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kevin-j-anderson/i-m-talking-to-you-and-it-s-basically-a-direct-communication-whereas/)

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[Communication](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/communication/)

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> [“The best enemies are fabricated enemies for two reasons: one, we have nothing to worry about, and two, the populace falls in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kevin-j-anderson/the-best-enemies-are-fabricated-enemies-for-two-reasons-one-we-have/)

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[Enemies](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/enemies/)

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> [The best place to start an adventure is with a quiet, perfect life . . . and someone who realizes that it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kevin-j-anderson/the-best-place-to-start-an-adventure-is-with-a-quiet-perfect-life-and/)

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[Adventure](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/adventure/)

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> [The people who make policy decisions should damned well know what they are talking about before they make the decisions. There is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kevin-j-anderson/the-people-who-make-policy-decisions-should-damned-well-know-what/)

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[Clone](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/clone/)

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> [ When I was doing preliminary research on this case, I remembered the story about Tlazolteotl.' \[Mulder\] glanced at the old archaeologist. 'Am… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kevin-j-anderson/when-i-was-doing-preliminary-research-on-this-case-i-remembered-the/)

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[Archaeologists](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/archaeologists/)

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> [One of the things that was kind of shocking for humans... was to come to terms with was the fact that, hey,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kevin-j-anderson/one-of-the-things-that-was-kind-of-shocking-for-humans-was-to-come-to/)

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[Center of the universe](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/center-of-the-universe/)

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> [In a certain sense, this guy - who is one of the most evil people in the book - he's not really…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kevin-j-anderson/in-a-certain-sense-this-guy-who-is-one-of-the-most-evil-people-in-the/)

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> [Sure, President Bush can say that the U.S. government won't fund stem cell research, but believe me, Japan is applauding. Because they…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kevin-j-anderson/sure-president-bush-can-say-that-the-u-s-government-won-t-fund-stem/)

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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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kevin-j-anderson/every-life-has-a-destiny-the-trick-is-to-discover-it-before-then-end/)

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[Destiny](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/destiny/)

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