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 Copy Share Image
The most common criticism that I've seen is that I write "popcorn fantasy": lightweight action-adventure. Some people call it that as they… — R. A. Salvatore Copy Share Image
Things don't really impress me. Memories impress me. It's not the toys, it's the people. — R. A. Salvatore Copy Share Image
On a more practical level, anyone out there who wants to be a writer should clearly recognize that this is a brutal… — R. A. Salvatore 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 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 Copy Share Image
A king is a man strong of character and conviction who leads by example and truly cares for the suffering of his… — R. A. Salvatore Copy Share Image
We are all prisoners at one time or another in our lives, prisoners to ourselves or to the expectations of those around… — R. A. Salvatore 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 disbelief, to… — R. A. Salvatore 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 poor man… — R. A. Salvatore 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 is all… — R. A. Salvatore 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 years later,… — R. A. Salvatore 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 the ugly… — R. A. Salvatore 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 were the… — R. A. Salvatore 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 his or… — R. A. Salvatore 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 disbelief, to… — R. A. Salvatore 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 be better… — R. A. Salvatore Copy Share Image
