Raymond E. Feist Quotes

Life is problems. Living is solving problems.

The past can be a terrible weight bound to you by an unbreakable chain. You can drag it with you, forever looking over your shoulder at what holds you back. Or you can let it go and move forward. It’s your choice.

A hero is someone who simply got too frightened to use his good sense and run away, then somehow lived through it all.

But for the most part, love is a recognition, an opportunity to say, 'There is something about you I cherish.

Every person you encounter, whom you interact with, is there to teach you something. Sometimes it may be years before you realize what each had to show you.

Some loves come unbidden like winds from the sea, and others grow from the seeds of friendship.

The brave man is not the one without fear but the one who does what he must despite being afraid. To succeed, you must be willing to risk total failure; you must learn this.

Never accept the proposition that just because a solution satisfies a problem, that it must be the only solution.

I know you'll think this odd, but I find it strangely exhilarating not knowing what's coming next.

Never underestimate the potential for human stupidity when wealth and power are at stake.

There are many ways to love someone. Sometimes we want love so much, we're not too choosy about who we love. Other times, we make love such a pure and noble thing, no poor human can ever meet our vision. But for the most part, love is a recognition, an opportunity to say, "There is something about you I cherish." It doesn't entail marriage, or even physical love. There's love of parents, love of city or nation, love of life, and love of people. All different, all love.

Sanity is all that stands between good and evil.

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

The real secret of magic is that there is no magic.

The saddest part of a broken heart Isn't the ending so much as the start The tragedy starts from the very first spark Losing your mind for the sake of your heart

There is no idea so brilliant or original that a sufficiently-untalented writer can't screw it up.

You would do well to know, Marcus, that irritating a better swordsman than yourself is a good way to end up dead.

Friends can betray you, but with an old enemy, you always know where you stand.

More men have been defeated by reports than all the steel of all the swords in history.

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.

If you're going to risk dying, there's no sense doing it wet, cold and hungry unless absolutely necessary.

Writing is hard work; its also the best job Ive ever had.

The world is much larger than I once dreamed, or perhaps my place in it is smaller than I once realized.

Dolgan: ’Tis a wise thing to know what is wanted, and wiser still to know when ‘tis achieved. Rhuagh: True. And still wiser to know when it is unachievable, for then striving is folly.

My dear dead mother wanted me to go into an honorable trade, like grave robbing. Would I listen? No. Be an assassin, like your uncle Gustav, she said. Would I pay heed? No. Apprentice to the Necromancer―