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R. A. Salvatore

"I thought I would set the world on fire when I got out of college. I had done quite well in a field that was growing. Unfortunately, we got hit with a recession in 1981."

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"I thought I would set the world on fire when I got out of college. I had done quite well in a field that was growing. Unfortunately, we got hit with a recession in 1981."

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"Each "way of thinking" has its own shape and color, which wax and wane like the moon."

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"Words do not express thoughts very well. They always become a little different immediately after they are expressed, a little distorted, a little foolish."

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"Words without thoughts never to heaven go."

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"Last season when things weren't working out, I thought we needed a different voice around the place."

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"But I never, never thought of the ministry nor did - of course, television when I was growing up, there was no television. So I didn't know anything about it."

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"We seldom find people ungrateful so long as it is thought we can serve them."

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"Our Creator would never have made such lovely days, and have given us the deep hearts to enjoy them, above and beyond all thought, unless we were meant to be immortal."

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"Wicked thoughts and worthless efforts gradually set their mark on the face, especially the eyes."

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"Thought and theory must precede all salutary action; yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory."

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"I've been drunk for about a week now, and I thought it might sober me up to sit in a library."

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R. A. Salvatore
"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."

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R. A. Salvatore
"Writing is an incredibly lonely job."

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R. A. Salvatore
"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."

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R. A. Salvatore
"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."

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R. A. Salvatore
"I thought I would set the world on fire when I got out of college. I had done quite well in a field that was growing. Unfortunately, we got hit with a recession in 1981."

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R. A. Salvatore
"I'm trying to make all the characters change and grow, or regress."

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R. A. Salvatore
"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."

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R. A. Salvatore
"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."

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R. A. Salvatore
"I do that mostly because I believe that the fantasy business is in terrible trouble right now, for several reasons, not the least of which being the almost Democrat vs. Republican mentality of readers on the Internet."

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R. A. Salvatore
"In the past, TSR and now Wizards of the Coast have asked me to do game stats for my characters, and I'm never comfortable doing that. It's all relative after all."

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