R. A. Salvatore Quotes

One person can make a difference. In fact, it's not only possible for one person to make a difference, it's essential that one person makes a difference. And believe it or not, that person is you.

People need to believe they can make a difference - that one person standing strong can turn the tide.

Stories had always been told about male genies coming out of bottles, but they were usually fat, old men. Never had the genie been a gorgeous woman, so that idea really appealed to me, and I created the series based on that premise.

I have always loved fantasy; I think probably stepping through the wardrobe with Lucy in C.S. Lewis's 'Narnia Chronicles' was my first exposure when I was really little.

I want to get the message out that everybody can make a difference.

I definitely love fantasy and would want to be in a fantasy project.

What we do really affects the world. Most of us think we can't do anything, but it really isn't true.

Fairy tales are stories of triumph and transformation and true love, all things I fervently believe in.

'The Lord of the Rings,' published in the mid-1950s, was intended as a prehistory to our own world. It was perceived by Tolkien to be a small but significant episode in a vast alternate mythology constructed entirely out of his own imagination.

Sir Terry Pratchett - he was knighted in 2009, and on him it looked earned rather than entitled - wrote about dragons, wizards, turtles, witches, time-travelling monks, and suitcases with legs.

I actually have a young readers' series that I wanna do, kind of in the same lane as a Harry Potter or Narnia or Twilight. I want to write stuff like that.

Fantasy novels, I don't really gravitate to that part of the bookstore.

I believe each individual can have a say and make a difference.

The thing about fantasy - there are certain things you just don't do in fantasy.

'Legend of the Seeker' - it has new and interesting creatures and magic, but it's the stories.

I learned in my four decades in Washington that one person can make a difference.

When you succeed at creating your own world, whether it's in any realm - like Tolkien was able to do - and people are able to enter that world, it's a special thing.

Fantasy enabled me to break the shackles and create a whole new level of 'the world is in danger' stakes.

I've always loved fantasy books. Even just growing up, I've always kind of loved magic and fantasy.

I was not trying to write some sort of serious meditation on war and peace. 'The Grace of Kings' is meant to be a fun book. It's meant to be an epic fantasy.

If it involved giants on any level, as a kid I was really wrapped up in that.

I always loved magic and fantasy/adventure series as a kid.

Arianna Huffington is one of the greatest champions of this idea - that anyone can make a difference.

Never feel too small or powerless to make a difference.

What I like about fairy tales is the language and the matter-of-fact way of introducing magic, where it's accepted that a fox could talk or a gate could just appear in a wall. I think fairy tales are so psychological.