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

R. A. Salvatore

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R. A. Salvatore
Age: 65
Born: 1959
Born: January 20
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Role-Playing Game Designer
Science Fiction Writer
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Leominster
Massachusetts
Robert Anthony Salvatore
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Writing is an incredibly lonely job.
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The meekest of animals will fight bravely when it is backed against a wall, for it has nothing left to lose. A poor man is more deadly than a rich man because he puts less value on his own life.
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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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Because of the friends I have known, the honorable people I have met, I know I am no solitary hero of unique causes. I know now that when I die, I will live on. That which is important will live on. This is my Legacy and by the grace of the gods, I am not alone.
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Farewell is said by the living, in life, every day. It is said with love and friendship, with the affirmation that the memories are lasting if the flesh is not.
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I'm trying to make all the characters change and grow, or regress.
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Truth, though, is nothing in the face of self-falsehood, and principles are of no value if the idealist cannot live up to his own standards.
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First blood is mine. Last blood counts for more. --Artemis Entreri and Drizzt Do'Urden
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I am sorry, was all Drizzt could quietly mouth. Vierna shook her head, refusing any apology. To Drizzt, it seemed as if that buried part of her that was Zaknafein Do'Urden's daughter approved of this ending.
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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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I've spared with demons from the Nine Hells themselves, I shall barely break a sweat here today.
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Joy multiplies when it is shared among friends, but grief diminishes with every division. That is life.
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We are all prisoners at one time or another in our lives, prisoners to ourselves or to the expectations of those around us. It is a burden that all people endure, that all people despise, and that few people ever learn to escape.
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We need to be reminded sometimes that a sunrise last but a few minutes. But its beauty can burn in our hearts eternally.
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i will follow it, though i know so well now the deep wounds i might find. for as long as i believe that i am walking the true road, if i am slain, then i die in the knowledge that for a brief time, at least, i was part of somethin bigger. this road has perils and i will surely die on it,but, i am not afraid to die.
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To grant the power of a weapon master to anyone at all, without effort, without training and proof that the lessons have taken hold, is to deny the responsibility that comes with such power.
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Writing a book for me, I expect, is very similar to the experience of reading the book for my readers.
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