Raymond E. Feist quotes

But for the most part, love is a recognition, an opportunity to say, 'There is something about you I cherish. (Raymond E. Feist)
I don't write fantasy; I write historical novels about an imaginary place. View quote
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I know you'll think this odd, but I find it strangely exhilarating not knowing what's coming next. View quote
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There were two things going on: 1) I had already established in my own mind where I wanted to go with the next series, and having James around as a Grey Eminence would have complicated matters. He had had an amazing life and it was time to bid him good-bye. View quote
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You can only have one first born child. You may love all your children deeply and with passion, but there is something unique about the first born. View quote
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Life is problems. Living is solving problems. View quote
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A hero is someone who simply got too frightened to use his good sense and run away, then somehow lived through it all. View quote
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Every person you encounter, whom you interact with, is there to teach you something. Sometimes it may be years before you realize what each had to show you. View quote
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Friends can betray you, but with an old enemy, you always know where you stand. View quote
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The brave man is not the one without fear but the one who does what he must despite being afraid. To succeed, you must be willing to risk total failure; you must learn this. View quote
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The past can be a terrible weight bound to you by an unbreakable chain. You can drag it with you, forever looking over your shoulder at what holds you back. Or you can let it go and move forward. It's your choice. (Raymond E. Feist)
Never accept the proposition that just because a solution satisfies a problem, that it must be the only solution. View quote
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Dolgan: 'Tis a wise thing to know what is wanted, and wiser still to know when ‘tis achieved. Rhuagh: True. And still wiser to know when it is unachievable, for then striving is folly. View quote
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The world is much larger than I once dreamed, or perhaps my place in it is smaller than I once realized. View quote
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Old habits are hard to forget, and old fears are habits. View quote
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The saddest part of a broken heart Isn't the ending so much as the start The tragedy starts from the very first spark Losing your mind for the sake of your heart. View quote
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Don't assume the world evolved in the order in which you discovered it. View quote
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There's always going to be comparisons, and that's unavoidable. There are people out there who feel I hit my peak with Magician and have gone downhill since. View quote
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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 nothing wrong with comic book characters in comic books, but I don't write comic books. View quote
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Some love comes like the wind off the sea, while others grow slowly from the seeds of friendship and kindness." - Carline. View quote
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Science fiction is fantasy about issues of science. Science fiction is a subset of fantasy. Fantasy predated it by several millennia. The '30s to the '50s were the golden age of science fiction - this was because, to a large degree, it was at this point that technology and science had exposed its potential without revealing the limitations. (Raymond E. Feist)
The issue of the Betrayal was so central to that, I felt the need to comment upon it. My choices were to ignore the games and put them 'outside' of continuity or to integrate them. I chose the latter. View quote
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Neal had a couple of good ideas and they fit nicely, so that's the way I decided to go. View quote
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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 go web surfing, then guilt kicks in and I get back to work. View quote
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One likes to think one grows as a writer as one ages, else all you get is an 'old' young writer. Beyond that is the changing landscape of the universe and the stories I choose to tell. View quote
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