Quotes by Raymond E. Feist

About Raymond E. Feist:

Raymond Elias Feist is an American author who primarily writes fantasy fiction. He is best known for The Riftwar Cycle series of novels and short stories. His books have been translated into multiple languages and have sold over 15 million copies.
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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 po...

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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 go...

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Boys... You're all idiots" - Carlaine

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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

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But should you ever come to a time when you need to say something upon my behalf, say this, 'The last truth is that there is no magic.

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Writing is hard work; it's also the best job I've ever had.

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I've never worried about 'the reader' because there isn't one. There are thousands, and they all have strong opinions, from 'Magician' was the best ever,' and I've gone downhill since to 'The new book is the best ever,' so to whom to I listen? So I w...

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Life is problems. Living is solving problems.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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I'm a huge fan of Cabernet and Bordeaux, and am passionate about Pinot Noir and Burgundies.

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People like rules, or at least the appearance of rules, even in fantasy.

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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.

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In the end, my reasons for moving down the timeline and introducing a new cast have more to do with keeping myself entertained, on the assumption that if I get bored, my readers are going to be even more bored.

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Mostly I'm writing about people, so I feel constrained to take with me my view of people, my curiosity about how people choose the things they do and why they come to certain decisions in a certain fashion and all the things that drive most writers.

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Either systems are in balance or they are falling apart. If people are acting in what appears to be a twisted way, I want to know the reason for that.

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As a kid, I sat transfixed watching Ray Harryhausen's '7th Voyage of Sinbad.'

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A whore may be the most beautiful woman you've seen, my son, but she's still a whore.

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I don't write fantasy; I write historical novels about an imaginary place.

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Author Bio

  • NameRaymond E. Feist
  • DescriptionNovelist
  • Born1945
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionWriter; Novelist
  • WorksMagician