I am no longer amazed by how quickly a man will justify his change of heart when a spear is leveled his way.

Whenever you're writing a book or creating a movie or a game, your first task is to get the reader to suspend disbelief, to buy into the logic and boundaries of your world, even though those boundaries might include things like dragons and magic.

I'm a working-class kid from a blue-collar New England family.

It got so bad that by the time I was graduated, the only reading I did was in order to get the grade and the only writing I did was in order to get the grade.

Luck?" Drizzt replied. "Perhaps. But more often, I dare to say, luck is simply the advantage a true warrior gains in excuting the correct course of action.

Writing a book for me, I expect, is very similar to the experience of reading the book for my readers.

I need no fantasies to belittle the great treasures that I already possess.