R. A. Salvatore Quotes About Writing

Quotes about: Writing

• If you can quit, then quit. If you can't quit, you're a writer.

  R. A. Salvatore

  Writing, Quitting, Ifs

  R.A. Salvatore (2011). “The Collected Stories, The Legend of Drizzt”, p.325, Wizards of the Coast

• Definitely they write themselves. It's an amazing experience. It's like the characters have come alive and are sitting on my shoulder talking to me, telling me their tales.

  R. A. Salvatore

  Writing, Character, Talking

• 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.

  R. A. Salvatore

  Book, Writing, School

• No one will ever write a fantasy novel better than The Hobbit.

  R. A. Salvatore

  Writing, Fantasy Novels, Fantasy

• Writing a book for me, I expect, is very similar to the experience of reading the book for my readers.

  R. A. Salvatore

  Book, Reading, Writing

• Writing is an incredibly lonely job.

  R. A. Salvatore

  Lonely, Jobs, Writing

• 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.

  R. A. Salvatore

  Book, Writing, Dragons

• 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.

  R. A. Salvatore

  Writing, Adventure, People

• There's way too much pain in this business for anyone who doesn't HAVE to write.

  R. A. Salvatore

  Pain, Writing, Too Much

• It got so bad that by the time I was graduated, the only reading I did was in order to get the grade and the only writing I did was in order to get the grade.

  R. A. Salvatore

  Reading, Writing, Order

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