Quotes from Raymond E. Feist

I'm a huge fan of Cabernet and Bordeaux, and am passionate about Pinot Noir and Burgundies.

As a kid, I sat transfixed watching Ray Harryhausen's '7th Voyage of Sinbad.'

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.

There were two things going on: 1) I had already established in my own mind where I wanted to go with the next series, and having James around as a Grey Eminence would have complicated matters. He had had an amazing life and it was time to bid him good-bye.

Life is problems. Living is solving problems.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

Don't assume the world evolved in the order in which you discovered it.

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.

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

Old habits are hard to forget, and old fears are habits.

Some love comes like the wind off the sea, while others grow slowly from the seeds of friendship and kindness." - Carline

Sanity is all that stands between good and evil.

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.

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