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Raymond E Feist

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.

– Raymond E Feist

Raymond E Feist

Any good story can galvanize a person, make him/her think about things a different way, reassess their own motives and needs, but that’s never my intent. That’s an unintended consequence of me just trying to entertain, to write what we used to call ‘ripping yarns.’

– Raymond E Feist

Raymond E Feist

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

– Raymond E Feist

Raymond E Feist

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

Raymond E Feist

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

Raymond E Feist

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

Raymond E Feist

Writing is not a competitive sport. Everyone that writes has his or her own voice.

– Raymond E Feist

Raymond E Feist

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

Raymond E Feist

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

Raymond E Feist

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

Raymond E Feist

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

Raymond E Feist

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

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