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I loved the world of imagination.
Never confuse honor with stupidity!
Writing is an incredibly lonely job.
The parry is wrong." - Drizzt Do'Urden
I shudder at the concept of a world tamed.
Everyone dies. It is how one lives that matters.
A world without dragons is a world not worth living in.
I'm a working-class kid from a blue-collar New England family.
No one will ever write a fantasy novel better than The Hobbit.
If you can quit, then quit. If you can't quit, you're a writer.
And the real thing can kill you whether you believe in it or not.
I'm trying to make all the characters change and grow, or regress.
Never seem to have a Death Star lying around when you need one.” -Han Solo
I need no fantasies to belittle the great treasures that I already possess.
There is no way of truly knowing where a road will lead until it is walked.
Artemis Entreri: Do not underestimate Jarlaxle. Many have; they all are dead.
There's way too much pain in this business for anyone who doesn't HAVE to write.
Change is not always growth, but growth is often rooted in change. Drizzt Do'Urden
First blood is mine. Last blood counts for more. --Artemis Entreri and Drizzt Do'Urden
I've always been a fighter. If you tell me I can't, I'll die trying to prove you wrong.
Things don't really impress me. Memories impress me. It's not the toys, it's the people.
I've spared with demons from the Nine Hells themselves, I shall barely break a sweat here today.
To view current events as a historian is to account for all perspectives, even those of your enemy
A span of a few heartbeats can make for a greater memory than the sum of a mundane year.-Catti-brie
Writing a book for me, I expect, is very similar to the experience of reading the book for my readers.
Fantasy is like an idealized reality, and the core of fantasy is the one person can make a difference.
Joy multiplies when it is shared among friends, but grief diminishes with every division. That is life.
It is better, I think, to grab at the stars than to sit flustered because you know you cannot reach them.
I am no longer amazed by how quickly a man will justify his change of heart when a spear is leveled his way.
There is a difference between finding trouble in your path and going out of your way searching for it.” -Jacen Solo
Farewell, my friend," Drizzt whispered, trying futilely to keep his voice from breaking. :This journey you make alone.
...a third [of three] had died in his bunk of natural causes--for a dagger in the heart quite naturally ends one's life.
We need to be reminded sometimes that a sunrise last but a few minutes. But its beauty can burn in our hearts eternally.
It is more difficult by far to be independent of our own inner shackles than it is of the shackles that others might place upon us.
Truth, though, is nothing in the face of self-falsehood, and principles are of no value if the idealist cannot live up to his own standards.
I will always love you Drizzt Do'Urden my life was full and without regret because I knew you and was completed by you. Sleep well, my love.
Luck?" Drizzt replied. "Perhaps. But more often, I dare to say, luck is simply the advantage a true warrior gains in excuting the correct course of action.
Because in fantasy perhaps more than in any other genre, the character is rewarded for making the right choices and punished for making the bad. Ask Boromir.
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.
Take your love and your pleasure as you find it. Do not worry so much of the future that you let today pass you by. you are happy. need you know more than that?
Farewell is said by the living, in life, every day. It is said with love and friendship, with the affirmation that the memories are lasting if the flesh is not.
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.
There is a wide world out there, full of pain, but filled with joy as well. The former keeps you on the path of growth and the latter makes the journey tolerable.
The gods of the realms are many and varied -- or they are the many and varied names and identities tagged onto the same being. I know not -- and care not -- which.
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.
This is my spiritual journey through life, my way of making sense of the world. I don't need permission from anyone or accolades from anyone; it is completely internal.
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.
Follow your heart, minute by minute and day by day. Let the course of the river run as it will, instead of tying yourself up in fears that you may never realize" Wulfgar
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.
A king is a man strong of character and conviction who leads by example and truly cares for the suffering of his people,not a brute who rules simply because he is the strongest.