R. A. Salvatore
I shudder at the concept of a world tamed.Collection: World
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.Collection: Good Luck
To view current events as a historian is to account for all perspectives, even those of your enemyCollection: Views
Selfishly, perhaps, Catti-brie had determined that the assassin was her own business. He had unnerved her, had stripped away years of training and discipline and reduced her to the quivering semblance of a frightened child. But she was a young woman now, no more a girl. She had to personally respond to that emotional humiliation, or the scars from it would haunt her to her grave, forever paralyzing her along her path to discover her true potential in life.Collection: Girl
The most common criticism that I've seen is that I write "popcorn fantasy": lightweight action-adventure. Some people call it that as they explain why they love it for exactly that reason. I'm cool with that, either way. I just nod and let it go.Collection: Writing
The meekest of animals will fight bravely when it is backed against a wall, for it has nothing left to lose. A poor man is more deadly than a rich man because he puts less value on his own life.Collection: Wall
First blood is mine. Last blood counts for more. --Artemis Entreri and Drizzt Do'UrdenCollection: Blood
Artemis Entreri: Do not underestimate Jarlaxle. Many have; they all are dead.Collection: Underestimate
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.Collection: Self
A world without dragons is a world not worth living in.Collection: Dragons
First blood is mine. Last blood counts for more. – Artemis Entreri and Drizzt Do’Urden.Collection: Firsts
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.Collection: Book
Whenever you’re writing a book or creating a movie or a game, your first task is to get the reader to suspend disbelief, to buy into the logic and boundaries of your world, even though those boundaries might include things like dragons and magic.Collection: Book
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.Collection: Book