Raymond E. Feist Quotes

I might add that you change as a person as you grow older, so you change as a writer, too.

I don't think much of anything I wrote before the age of 30.

I'm still proud of the 'Fionavar Tapestry.' The fact I don't write the same way is as much as anything else the fact a man in his 50s doesn't write the way a man in his 20s does - or he shouldn't.

Good authors mature over time: it does take awhile.

I'd say that after my father passed my writing changed, it went deeper. Most would say 'matured' but I don't think I'd use that word in relation to my progress. I think 'change' is a little more accurate.

The youth of an art is, like the youth of anything else, its most interesting period. When it has come to the knowledge of good and evil it is stronger, but we care less about it.

I've been at writing long enough now to know that every three or four books, I have to start a new direction.

In thirteen years, every aspect of the universe can change - ask a thirteen-year-old.

There are things that you write when you're 20 and there are things that you write when you're 40 and then there are things that you write when you're old.

I like to think I grow as a writer from every new experience.

Time moves too slowly for me to notice any evolution in my creative tendencies.

On the one hand, you're the same person, but as you get older, you change somewhat, and you never know how it's going to affect your work.

By the time you have perfected any style of writing, you have always outgrown it.

I was so young when I started, my taste has changed and developed, and I've gone from being a little bit safe to trying different things.

Most fiction writers are driven to find their own 'voice,' but I am more interested in the voices of others.

People mature. They learn. They get better at things. You're different when you're 45 than when you're 25.

Jazz can accommodate so many things. Jazz is like the universe: it's been expanding since its creation, and it's connected to everything.

In my experience, every book you write changes the conditions in which you write the next.

Every single path is so different, but I would definitely say that the idea of what a writer is or should be is not a thing anymore. Everyone is redefining publishing, writing, and storytelling in general.

As you get older, everybody changes. You don't do the stupid stuff that you used to.

You could say, 'Oh, we're gonna write the heaviest album of all time' or 'We're gonna write an album that sounds like 'Iowa.'' Even if we set out to try to do so, it would never compare. We're not those people anymore, we're not that band anymore.

Planet Earth is estimated to have a lifetime of nine billion years. And we're right smack in the middle of our lifetime. We've been in the universe for 4.5 billion years. So, that should mean something. We should sort of take a look at where we came from and where we are going.

Anything I wrote before the age of 17 is probably worth putting a pin in and moving on.

As you grow and get older, you evolve.

You get older, you can't stay the same. You can't eat the same. You have to change things to get better.