Books Quote by Raymond E. Feist Download Open image “I don't write fantasy; I write historical novels about an imaginary place.” — Raymond E. Feist ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.2 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Books Fantasy Historical History Imaginary Novel Writing
I don't write fantasy, I write reality. Also, my novels have roots to Greek tragedies and as such, there has to be tragedy. — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
I really can't write fantasy. I cannot invent a world which does not exist. And I can't read fantasy either. As soon as I… — Michael Morpurgo Copy Share Image
I write fantasy because it's there. I have no other excuse for sitting down for several hours a day indulging my imagination. Daydreaming. Thinking… — Patricia A. McKillip Copy Share Image
Readers seem to really like the fact that what I'm writing is not traditional fantasy. — N. K. Jemisin Copy Share Image
There is a part of me that has to depend on fantasy, because if you can't be somewhat of a fantasy person, then you… — Stevie Nicks Copy Share Image
People think I write fantasy, but I don't. Some things may be exaggerated or distorted, but they're realistic figures. . . . There's nothing incredible about it. — Joe Orton Copy Share Image
Writing fantasy lets me imagine a great deal more than, say, writing about alligators, and lets me write about places more distant than Florida,… — Terry Brooks Copy Share Image
I didn't want to write a pure fantasy novel, though I love those and grew up on J. R. R. Tolkien and Ursula LeGuin. — Jeff Giles Copy Share Image
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 some wear… — Raymond E. Feist Copy Share Image
A hero is someone who simply got too frightened to use his good sense and run away, then somehow lived through it all. — Raymond E. Feist Copy Share Image
“Knowing what things are not is often as important as knowing what they are.” — Raymond E. Feist Copy Share Image
You would do well to know, Marcus, that irritating a better swordsman than yourself is a good way to end up dead. — Raymond E. Feist Copy Share Image
“Kings and marshals can look back and relive their triumphs, their great victories. We common folk must take what pleasure we can from life's… — Raymond E. Feist Copy Share Image
I feel when a writer treats a character as 'precious,' the writer runs the risk of turning them into a comic book character. There's… — Raymond E. Feist Copy Share Image
“All right, me darlings. You heard the Captain. Look around and tell ol'Biggo what you thieving rascals grabbed when you ran for your lives!” — Raymond E. Feist Copy Share Image
If I leave my computer, I'm probably not going to get back for hours. If I take a few minutes to answer questions and… — Raymond E. Feist Copy Share Image
I keep threatening to write a non-fantasy book, and they keep offering me the kind of money I can't refuse to write a fantasy.… — Raymond E. Feist Copy Share Image
I don't like fantasy where a king snaps his fingers and suddenly a whole army appears and goes off to war - he's got… — Raymond E. Feist Copy Share Image
I think a new world will arise out of the religious mists when we approach our Bible with the idea that it is not… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
If I had a dollar for every time I couldn’t sleep, I could buy a billion locks and finally read a book in peace. — Aesop Rock Copy Share Image
If what I write is literature, I guess you'd better emphasize the 'litter.' — Lydia Lunch Copy Share Image
My sentences got sharper and my stories more efficient, and I gradually learned to imagine the reader more clearly and to empathize with that… — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share Image
Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
“Within the pages of books, I've journeyed to Mandalay, the Milky Way and Santa Fe, without once having to leave my armchair.” — Kevin Ansbro Copy Share Image
“Tacitus did not write a most dangerous book. His readers made it so.” — Christopher K. Krebs Copy Share Image
“Take some books and read; that’s an immense help; and books are always good company if you have the right sort.” — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
Reader, if you are gifted with nerves like mine, aspire to any character but that of a wit. — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
I have many who keep me going, I am very fortunate in this sense. There is nothing like a child who knows more about… — Floyd Cooper Copy Share Image
I think books in which people are really happy and things are going well are probably the most challenging novels there are to write,… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
