Often I’ll try things that just won’t happen the way I’d like them to, so hearing that they’re not working saves me some wear and tear the next time around. Raymond E. Feist Read Quote
All the Midkemia stories are part of a ‘history of an imaginary place,’ so I’ve always known the cycle covered five rift wars. I just got to the end after 30 books. So there was no particular inspiration, save it was time to finish the whole shebang. Raymond E. Feist Read Quote
Any good story can galvanize a person, make him/her think about things a different way, reassess their own motives and needs, but that’s never my intent. That’s an unintended consequence of me just trying to entertain, to write what we used to call ‘ripping yarns.’ Raymond E. Feist Read Quote
As a kid, I sat transfixed watching Ray Harryhausen’s ‘7th Voyage of Sinbad.’ Raymond E. Feist Read Quote
I keep threatening to write a non-fantasy book, and they keep offering me the kind of money I can’t refuse to write a fantasy. That’s a good thing. I have to pay my mortgage, and I have to pay for my Chargers season tickets. Raymond E. Feist Read Quote
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. Raymond E. Feist Read Quote
I won’t say that writing is therapy, but for me, the act of writing is therapy. The ability to be productive is good for my mental health. It’s always better for me to be writing than vegetating on some couch. Raymond E. Feist Read Quote
Writing is not a competitive sport. Everyone that writes has his or her own voice. Raymond E. Feist Read Quote
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. Raymond E. Feist Read Quote
I don’t like fantasy where a king snaps his fingers and suddenly a whole army appears and goes off to war – he’s got to feed them, he’s got to pay them, he’s got to take care of the camp followers and the gamblers and the people who cause disorder. Raymond E. Feist Read Quote
