"I had a minor in Russian history, and this was at the time when the big Cold War was going on." ― Kevin J. Anderson Topic(s): Romantic More From 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." "I wanted the feel in these books to be like an epic fantasy, with kings, queens, dukes and court politics, but of course like what I was explaining before, about making the science make sense, you have to make the politics make sense, too." "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." More In Romantic "Now that I look back on it, having retired from being a reporter, it was kind of romantic. It was a wonderful way to live one’s life, just as I imagined it would be when I was 6 or 7."― Charles Kuralt "I do tend to play characters that have a lot of costume and hair change. I sort of like the change of physicality thing."― Katey Sagal "I got a gymnastics scholarship to college, fell in love with my true love of my whole life – who I’m married to now – and he was a virgin too. It was very romantic."― Victoria Jackson