R. A. Salvatore Quotes

I've always been a fighter. If you tell me I can't, I'll die trying to prove you wrong.
R. A. Salvatore

Trying, Die, Wrong

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 about that; it's all about having fun and getting away from the mundane world for just a little while.
R. A. Salvatore

Fun, Away, Often

Also, there are authors and publicists using the Internet to manipulate opinion, both positively for a work and negatively against the competition. I don't do this and can't stomach it, honestly.
R. A. Salvatore

Work, Opinion, Against

Definitely they write themselves. It's an amazing experience. It's like the characters have come alive and are sitting on my shoulder talking to me, telling me their tales.
R. A. Salvatore

Experience, Amazing, Write

Here's the thing, for me at least: this is a huge genre now. It wasn't always so. Not so many years ago, it wasn't so. There is a tremendous diversity in fantasy today.
R. A. Salvatore

Today, Here, Diversity

I didn't and don't go to Internet for any business purposes. The book sales for me by this point are way beyond any influence I might have, positively, or others might have, negatively.
R. A. Salvatore

Business, Book, Others

I do that mostly because I believe that the fantasy business is in terrible trouble right now, for several reasons, not the least of which being the almost Democrat vs. Republican mentality of readers on the Internet.
R. A. Salvatore

Business, Trouble, Almost

I loved the world of imagination.
R. A. Salvatore

I loved to read and to write, but then something happened. As I made my way through school, I kept getting handed books to read that didn't excite me and didn't even remotely connect to the realities of my life.
R. A. Salvatore

Life, School, Through

I never intended to be a professional writer; as the story developed, the one thing I had in my hopes was that this would be something tangible to separate me from the nameless, numbered masses.
R. A. Salvatore

Story, Writer, Hopes

I thought I would set the world on fire when I got out of college. I had done quite well in a field that was growing. Unfortunately, we got hit with a recession in 1981.
R. A. Salvatore

Fire, Done, Thought

I'm a working-class kid from a blue-collar New England family.
R. A. Salvatore

Family, Kid, England

I'm trying to make all the characters change and grow, or regress.
R. A. Salvatore

Change, Trying, Grow

In the past, TSR and now Wizards of the Coast have asked me to do game stats for my characters, and I'm never comfortable doing that. It's all relative after all.
R. A. Salvatore

Past, Game, After

It got so bad that by the time I was graduated, the only reading I did was in order to get the grade and the only writing I did was in order to get the grade.
R. A. Salvatore

Time, Bad, Writing

So, while I gave up the notions of publishing at that time, I never stopped editing and refining that book. A few years later, in 1987, I thought I had it ready to go out again.
R. A. Salvatore

Time, Book, Thought

Writing a book for me, I expect, is very similar to the experience of reading the book for my readers.
R. A. Salvatore

Experience, Book, Writing

Writing is an incredibly lonely job.
R. A. Salvatore

Lonely, Job, Writing

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Author

Born: January 20, 1959

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