Raymond E. Feist

Sanity is all that stands between good and evil.

— Raymond E. Feist

The real secret of magic is that there is no magic.

— Raymond E. Feist

“Boys... You're all idiots”

— Raymond E. Feist

The first love is the difficult love.

— Raymond E. Feist

Life is problems. Living is solving problems.

— Raymond E. Feist

I don't write fantasy; I write historical novels about an imaginary place.

— Raymond E. Feist

“knew the futility of agonizing over why things had transpired as they had. What could have happened, did.”

— Raymond E. Feist

Neal had a couple of good ideas and they fit nicely, so that's the way I decided to go.

— Raymond E. Feist

Writing is not a competitive sport. Everyone that writes has his or her own voice.

— Raymond E. Feist

“Good,” said Creed. “I always like it when a captain has a plan; makes getting killed a lot less random.”

— Raymond E. Feist

“You learn something new every day, if you just stop to pay attention.”

— Raymond E. Feist

More men have been defeated by reports than all the steel of all the swords in history.

— Raymond E. Feist

Writing is hard work; it's also the best job I've ever had.

— Raymond E. Feist

When you talk about fantasy, the usual problem is that whilst you've got the world of imagination, there are no controlling forces.

— Raymond E. Feist

“I know, when we are young we cannot entertain the idea another's feelings can be as deep as our own. Our love…

— Raymond E. Feist

“A man makes choices,” Tal said. “True, but what choices a man makes depends on what choices he is offered.”

— Raymond E. Feist

“My father, an occasionally wise man, once said that we were blessed only when the gods remained ignorant of us.”

— Raymond E. Feist

“I wonder if those who live here get used to this beauty.” “Undoubtedly, Magnificence. It is the nature of man to become…

— Raymond E. Feist

I won't say that writing is therapy, but for me, the act of writing is therapy. The ability to be productive is…

— Raymond E. Feist

“It is said by some that the gods show us their bitter humor by molding us into what we hate most in…

— Raymond E. Feist

Often I'll try things that just won't happen the way I'd like them to, so hearing that they're not working saves me…

— Raymond E. Feist

“Why? Why do you care what happens to scum like them?' De Loungville moved his horse alongside Erik's, so he was almost…

— Raymond E. Feist

“The pride Kaspar had seen in his father’s eyes, despite the admonishing words about foolish acts, had branded the boy for life.…

— Raymond E. Feist

I feel when a writer treats a character as 'precious,' the writer runs the risk of turning them into a comic book…

— Raymond E. Feist

“As they walked he glanced sideways and at last asked, "You are the one they call Pug?" If Pug hadn't already been…

— Raymond E. Feist

I keep threatening to write a non-fantasy book, and they keep offering me the kind of money I can't refuse to write…

— Raymond E. Feist

“The Empire is all those who live within its borders, from the nobles to the lowest servant, even the slaves who work…

— Raymond E. Feist

I've never worried about 'the reader' because there isn't one. There are thousands, and they all have strong opinions, from 'Magician' was…

— Raymond E. Feist

Mostly I'm writing about people, so I feel constrained to take with me my view of people, my curiosity about how people…

— Raymond E. Feist

“Now he wondered what use it would be. For Kaspar’s death would not bring back his father, Elk’s Call at Dawn, or…

— Raymond E. Feist

There are many ways to love someone. Sometimes we want love so much, we're not too choosy about who we love. Other…

— Raymond E. Feist

“Just remember that in most things, right or wrong depends on where you’re standing at the moment. My father’s people would have…

— Raymond E. Feist

“Have you ever wronged a man . . . just to do him harm? Or have you always had a reason?’ Kaspar…

— Raymond E. Feist

“My father used to say, “a day spent breathing is a good day”

— Raymond E. Feist

Never underestimate the potential for human stupidity when wealth and power are at stake.

— Raymond E. Feist

Writing is hard work; its also the best job Ive ever had.

— Raymond E. Feist

“Life is what happens, Magnus, no matter what you expect or want.”

— Raymond E. Feist

People like rules, or at least the appearance of rules, even in fantasy.

— Raymond E. Feist

Altruism accrues little benefit to those lying cold in the gutter.

— Raymond E. Feist

“The faults we see in others never seem as dreadful as those we see in ourselves.”

— Raymond E. Feist