Terry Brooks Quotes (38 Quotes)

On the other hand, I still approach each book with the same basic plan in mind - to put some people under severe stress and see how they hold up.

I have learned to do more with less, so you don't see the big books anymore.

She has her gown nicely in place tonight, doesnt she Black velvet and sparkles, not a thread left hanging. Clever girl, this city. Even the sky is her friend

I remember one winter, when I was about five or six, I spent three days with another boy, tracking a bobcat that had been sighted in another county fifty miles away, but which I was sure had come into our neighborhood.

What I want to write about has changed somewhat, and the scope of the storytelling has changed accordingly.

I want to kick-start your imagination and let you discover the places it can take you.

But I am the same storyteller as always.

Well, I think that as a country, we've drifted away from appreciating the importance of imagination.

Even after Sword was published, I was still only thinking about the next book, Elfstones.

I had wanted to do a dark fantasy set in the present in our own world for some time, but I didn't have what I felt was the right vehicle.

It's getting to a point where, I'm just hanging my head. I don't know how to respond to it.

Hurt leads to bitterness, bitterness to anger, travel too far that road and the way is lost.

Growing up, I didn't have a lot of toys, and personal entertainment depended on individual ingenuity and imagination - think up a story and go live it for an afternoon.

I haven't made up my mind about doing anymore Landover books.

Anyway, several rewrites later, Del Rey Books did publish my first novel, and it did become the first work of fiction on the New York Times trade paperback bestseller list.

What is interesting to me is how the characters respond, how they change and grow by facing what often seem overwhelming difficulties.

My interests are different now than they were thirty years ago.

In bad weather, I spent hours drawing action figures on paper, coloring them, backing them on cardboard, then cutting them out and creating whole stories around their lives.

I didn't want readers to have to make allowances for what they couldn't see, but to be able to say to themselves that the fabric of the magic detailed was perfectly believable.

We forget that what matters begins with the imagination.

In Running with the Demon, I wanted to say something about the nature of childhood, and what it's like to grow up in a small town.

Testing of self is a regular part of our own lives, so it seems natural to make it a part of the lives of my characters, as well, albeit on a much different level.

One summer we played for a week at being Knights of the Round Table, using broom handles as swords and lances and metal garbage can lids as shields.

We are constantly being put to the test by trying circumstances and difficult people and problems not necessarily of our own making.

A world in which elves exist and magic works offers greater opportunities to digress and explore.

When I was a kid, we had to rely on our imaginations for entertainment.

For a writer, its very attractive to stay in one world for a time.

This is my 25th book over 28 years, and to still be able to write a book and be a best seller again is remarkable. I'm impressed, myself, and very grateful.

My breakthrough as a reader was when I discovered the European adventure story writers - Alexander Dumas, Robert Louis Stevenson, Sir Walter Scott, to name a few.

The community, the city that I live in, we're trying to clean the community up, to bring it up, ... We can't tolerate anybody that's going to bring it down so, in my opinion, these guys needed to go.

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

I think I make better use of language and imagery than when I started out.

Fantasy is the only canvas large enough for me to paint on.

It gets out of the waste stream, out of the landfills.

If you live in the right county and get the right worker, you're going to win.

Writing fantasy lets me imagine a great deal more than, say, writing about alligators, and lets me write about places more distant than Florida, but I can tell you things about Florida and alligators, let you make the connection all on your own.

After all, you put a lot into creating a universe and everything that goes with it, and it seems a shame to use it only once.

I want you, as a reader, to experience what I experience, to let that other world, that imaginary world that I have created, tell you things about the real world.