Terry Brooks Quotes
"What I want to write about has changed somewhat, and the scope of the storytelling has changed accordingly."
- Terry Brooks
(Related: Want)
"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."
- Terry Brooks
(Related: Experience, Want, World)
"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."
- Terry Brooks
(Related: Action, Weather)
"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."
- Terry Brooks
(Related: Adventure, Name, Writers)
"My interests are different now than they were thirty years ago."
- Terry Brooks
(Related: Now, Years)
"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."
- Terry Brooks
(Related: People, Mind, Stress)
"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."
- Terry Brooks
(Related: Self, Testing)
"We are constantly being put to the test by trying circumstances and difficult people and problems not necessarily of our own making."
- Terry Brooks
(Related: People, Being, Circumstances, Problems, Trying)
"Well, I think that as a country, we've drifted away from appreciating the importance of imagination."
- Terry Brooks
(Related: Imagination, Country, Importance)
"I want to kick-start your imagination and let you discover the places it can take you."
- Terry Brooks
(Related: Imagination, Want)
"I have learned to do more with less, so you don't see the big books anymore."
- Terry Brooks
(Related: Books)
"When I was a kid, we had to rely on our imaginations for entertainment."
- Terry Brooks
(Related: Entertainment)
"We forget that what matters begins with the imagination."
- Terry Brooks
(Related: Imagination, Forget)
"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."
- Terry Brooks
(Related: Imagination, Entertainment, Growing up)
"I might add that you change as a person as you grow older, so you change as a writer, too."
- Terry Brooks
(Related: Change, Writer)
"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."
- Terry Brooks
(Related: Shame, Universe)
"A world in which elves exist and magic works offers greater opportunities to digress and explore."
- Terry Brooks
(Related: Magic, World)
"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."
- Terry Brooks
(Related: Work, Books, Fiction, First, Trade)
"Even after Sword was published, I was still only thinking about the next book, Elfstones."
- Terry Brooks
(Related: Thinking)
"For a writer, its very attractive to stay in one world for a time."
- Terry Brooks
(Related: Time, World, Writer)
"Hurt leads to bitterness, bitterness to anger, travel too far that road and the way is lost."
- Terry Brooks
(Related: Travel, Anger, Bitterness, Hurt, Road)
"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."
- Terry Brooks
(Related: Magic, Want)
"I haven't made up my mind about doing anymore Landover books."
- Terry Brooks
(Related: Books, Mind)
"I think I make better use of language and imagery than when I started out."
- Terry Brooks
(Related: Language)
"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."
- Terry Brooks
(Related: Winter)
"Fantasy is the only canvas large enough for me to paint on."
- Terry Brooks
(Related: Fantasy)