I thought I would set the world on fire when I got out of college. I had done quite well in a… — R. A. Salvatore College Copy Share Image
I do that mostly because I believe that the fantasy business is in terrible trouble right now, for several reasons, not the… — R. A. Salvatore Believe Copy Share Image
Also, there are authors and publicists using the Internet to manipulate opinion, both positively for a work and negatively against the competition.… — R. A. Salvatore Books 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
I need no fantasies to belittle the great treasures that I already possess. — R. A. Salvatore Belittle 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
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
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 Anyone Copy Share Image
Loss of empathy might well be the most enduring and deep-cutting scar of all, the silent blade of an unseen emey, tearing… — R. A. Salvatore Blades 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
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
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
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
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
I will always love you Drizzt Do'Urden my life was full and without regret because I knew you and was completed by… — R. A. Salvatore Always love you Copy Share Image
It got so bad that by the time I was graduated, the only reading I did was in order to get the… — R. A. Salvatore Order 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
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
“No, I would not want to live in a world without dragons, as I would not want to live in a world… — R. A. Salvatore Faith 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
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 Brutes Copy Share Image
I'm a working-class kid from a blue-collar New England family. — R. A. Salvatore Blue collar 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'm trying to make all the characters change and grow, or regress. — R. A. Salvatore Change Copy Share Image