And the real thing can kill you whether you believe in it or not. — R. A. Salvatore Believe Copy Share Image
Fantasy is like an idealized reality, and the core of fantasy is the one person can make a difference. — R. A. Salvatore Core Copy Share Image
Whenever you're writing a book or creating a movie or a game, your first task is to get the reader to suspend… — R. A. Salvatore Book Copy Share Image
The meekest of animals will fight bravely when it is backed against a wall, for it has nothing left to lose. A… — R. A. Salvatore Animal Copy Share Image
I won't hold any illusions of changing the world or any such nonsense. But maybe, just maybe, I'm helping someone else change… — R. A. Salvatore Any Copy Share Image
Science fiction is the ugly stepchild of mainstream literature, and fantasy is the ugly stepchild of science fiction, and tie-in novels are… — R. A. Salvatore Books Copy Share Image
You have to understand that while I pre-plot the meta story of a given book, I often have no idea of what… — R. A. Salvatore Alone Copy Share Image
So, while I gave up the notions of publishing at that time, I never stopped editing and refining that book. A few… — R. A. Salvatore Book Copy Share Image
I never intended to be a professional writer; as the story developed, the one thing I had in my hopes was that… — R. A. Salvatore Hopes Copy Share Image
These were the companions who justified my principles, who gave me the strength to continue against any foe, real or imagined. These… — R. A. Salvatore Companion Copy Share Image
To any intelligent being, there is no emotion more important than hope. Individually or collectively, we must hope that the future will… — R. A. Salvatore Being there Copy Share Image
Whenever you're writing a book or creating a movie or a game, your first task is to get the reader/audience/player to suspend… — R. A. Salvatore Book Copy Share Image
I don't often know exactly what's coming next, and that makes it more fun. And you know, for me, this entire genre… — R. A. Salvatore Fun Copy Share Image
Here's the thing, for me at least: this is a huge genre now. It wasn't always so. Not so many years ago,… — R. A. Salvatore Diversity Copy Share Image
I'm a working-class kid from a blue-collar New England family. — R. A. Salvatore Blue collar Copy Share Image
I've always been a fighter. If you tell me I can't, I'll die trying to prove you wrong. — R. A. Salvatore Fighter Copy Share Image
To view current events as a historian is to account for all perspectives, even those of your enemy — R. A. Salvatore Accounts Copy Share Image
I need no fantasies to belittle the great treasures that I already possess. — R. A. Salvatore Belittle Copy Share Image
Writing a book for me, I expect, is very similar to the experience of reading the book for my readers. — R. A. Salvatore Book Copy Share Image
Things don't really impress me. Memories impress me. It's not the toys, it's the people. — R. A. Salvatore Impress Copy Share Image
“...and a third had died in his bunk of natural causes-- for a dagger in the heart quite naturally ends one's life” — R. A. Salvatore Causes Copy Share Image
I'm trying to make all the characters change and grow, or regress. — R. A. Salvatore Change Copy Share Image
There's way too much pain in this business for anyone who doesn't HAVE to write. — R. A. Salvatore Business Copy Share Image
I don't know how many bestsellers I've got, or half the awards I've won, and I don't really care. I'm just having… — R. A. Salvatore Awards Copy Share Image
This little hobbit saves the world. The wizard kills the dragon and saves the town. So many people connect to that character;… — R. A. Salvatore Character Copy Share Image
When I'm telling stories of my video game days, when I was a really hardcore MMO player, I played 'EverQuest' for two… — R. A. Salvatore Days Copy Share Image
Definitely they write themselves. It's an amazing experience. It's like the characters have come alive and are sitting on my shoulder talking… — R. A. Salvatore Alive Copy Share Image
That's the whole point of writing to me - I put my characters under incredible duress, and from that comes their truth.… — R. A. Salvatore Answers Copy Share Image
Only in very rare circumstances will you see something cut out of my first drafts. Maybe it's because of the way I… — R. A. Salvatore Because Copy Share Image
In the past, TSR and now Wizards of the Coast have asked me to do game stats for my characters, and I'm… — R. A. Salvatore Coast Copy Share Image
I loved to read and to write, but then something happened. As I made my way through school, I kept getting handed… — R. A. Salvatore Books Copy Share Image
Writers always have confidence issues - it comes with the territory. We never know where we fit in, or what the actual… — R. A. Salvatore Actual Copy Share Image
Whether it's a kid in high school who doesn't have any friends and finds friends in my characters, or a guy in… — R. A. Salvatore About Copy Share Image
Writing can be a tough gig. Whenever you do something in which you put yourself out there - if that becomes the… — R. A. Salvatore Becomes Copy Share Image
But what of faith? What of fidelity and loyalty? Complete trust? Faith is not granted by tangible proof. It comes from the… — R. A. Salvatore Drizzt Copy Share Image
