R. A. Salvatore Quotes

• Change is not always growth, but growth is often rooted in change.

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• Writing is an incredibly lonely job.

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  Tags in Lonely

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

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  Tags in Writer, Book

• 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.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Refining, Publishing

• 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.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Order, Grade

• 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.

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  Tags in Comfortable, Relative

• If you can quit, then quit. If you can’t quit, you’re a writer.

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• I’ve always been a fighter. If you tell me I can’t, I’ll die trying to prove you wrong.

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  Tags in Fighter, Prove, Trying

• I’m trying to make all the characters change and grow, or regress.

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  Tags in Regress, Change, Trying, Grow

• I’m a working-class kid from a blue-collar New England family.

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  Topics in Family, Work

• 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.

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  Tags in Unfortunately, Recession, Fire, Thought

• 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.

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  Tags in Professional, Hope

• 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.

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  Topics in Life

  Tags in Reality

• I loved the world of imagination.

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  Tags in World, Imagination

• 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.

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  Tags in World, Know, Fun

• 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.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Believe, Internet, Right, Terrible

• 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.

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  Topics in Business, Influence

• 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.

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  Tags in Huge, Diversity, Tremendous

• 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.

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  Topics in Experience

  Tags in Character

• 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.

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  Topics in Honesty

  Tags in Internet, Competition

R. A. Salvatore (20)

Birth:	20th January, 1959
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Novelist, Writer

About

R. A. Salvatore is an American author best known for The DemonWars Saga, his Forgotten Realms novels, in which he created the popular character Drizzt Do'Urden, and Vector Prime, the first novel in the Star Wars: The New Jedi Order series. He has sold more
than 15 million copies of his books in the USA alone and twenty-two of his titles have been New York Times best-sellers.

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