R. A. Salvatore Quotes & Sayings (Page 3)

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

“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.”

“Things don't really impress me. Memories impress me. It's not the toys, it's the people.”

“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.”

“I'm a working-class kid from a blue-collar New England family.”

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

“I'm trying to make all the characters change and grow, or regress.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”