Life is problems. Living is solving problems. Raymond E. Feist More Quotes by Raymond E. Feist More Quotes From Raymond E. Feist Also, it's risky to try to duplicate earlier success. Magician had a certain charm to it, mostly due to my choice of lead characters, that I would be hard put to duplicate. Raymond E. Feist choice try hard success There's always going to be comparisons, and that's unavoidable. There are people out there who feel I hit my peak with Magician and have gone downhill since. Raymond E. Feist feel always gone people People like rules, or at least the appearance of rules, even in fantasy. Raymond E. Feist rules fantasy appearance people I feel when a writer treats a character as 'precious,' the writer runs the risk of turning them into a comic book character. There's nothing wrong with comic book characters in comic books, but I don't write comic books. Raymond E. Feist nothing feel character book When you talk about fantasy, the usual problem is that whilst you've got the world of imagination, there are no controlling forces. Raymond E. Feist you problem imagination world Science fiction is fantasy about issues of science. Science fiction is a subset of fantasy. Fantasy predated it by several millennia. The '30s to the '50s were the golden age of science fiction - this was because, to a large degree, it was at this point that technology and science had exposed its potential without revealing the limitations. Raymond E. Feist fantasy technology age science I don't like fantasy where a king snaps his fingers and suddenly a whole army appears and goes off to war - he's got to feed them, he's got to pay them, he's got to take care of the camp followers and the gamblers and the people who cause disorder. Raymond E. Feist king care war people Mostly I'm writing about people, so I feel constrained to take with me my view of people, my curiosity about how people choose the things they do and why they come to certain decisions in a certain fashion and all the things that drive most writers. Raymond E. Feist drive me fashion people Writing is not a competitive sport. Everyone that writes has his or her own voice. Raymond E. Feist everyone own voice writing I won't say that writing is therapy, but for me, the act of writing is therapy. The ability to be productive is good for my mental health. It's always better for me to be writing than vegetating on some couch. Raymond E. Feist better good me health Either systems are in balance or they are falling apart. If people are acting in what appears to be a twisted way, I want to know the reason for that. Raymond E. Feist know balance people way I keep threatening to write a non-fantasy book, and they keep offering me the kind of money I can't refuse to write a fantasy. That's a good thing. I have to pay my mortgage, and I have to pay for my Chargers season tickets. Raymond E. Feist good me money book I've never worried about 'the reader' because there isn't one. There are thousands, and they all have strong opinions, from 'Magician' was the best ever,' and I've gone downhill since to 'The new book is the best ever,' so to whom to I listen? So I write for myself and hope other people like it. Raymond E. Feist best myself hope people As a kid, I sat transfixed watching Ray Harryhausen's '7th Voyage of Sinbad.' Raymond E. Feist voyage ray watching kid
