Terry Brooks Quotes
If you do not love what you do, if you are not appropriately grateful for the chance to create something magical each time you sit down at the computer or with a pencil and paper in hand, somewhere along the way your writing will betray you.
Quotes to Explore
-
Writers should provoke disagreement.
-
Bogart could have been color blind. He got to know a man before he decided if he liked him or not.
-
Hot girls have so many options. Sitting at home alone any night of the week and searching the Internet for a dude is on zero hot girls' agendas. So they're definitely not coming after you.
-
I am a control freak. I will admit that freely.
-
The Gorillaz cartoons seem more real to me than the actual people on TV. Because at least you know that there's some intelligence behind the cartoons, and there's a lot of work that's gone into it, so it can't all be just a lie.
-
Girls have an unfair advantage over men: if they can't get what they want by being smart, they can get it by being dumb.
-
I keep pushing buttons and trying to grow as a person and as a filmmaker.
-
I keep on 5 to 10 pounds above my jeans weight, as the ultimate no-filler-needed refresher, and buy a size up on jeans.
-
People still do fall in and out of love and can and cannot express what they feel and are very much pained because the person they love is with somebody else. That's happening the whole world over, and I think it always has been.
-
Female clothing seems to be extremely difficult and almost like a puzzle for a man to take off. But I think if you get there, you win. A kilt is the complete opposite. The kilt is so easy to take off.
-
I always look for my mistakes so I can correct them in the future.
-
Productive achievement is a consequence and an expression of health and self-esteem, not its cause.
-
I hope everyone goes through life seeking knowledge.
-
We have to be careful because if one day the world is short of energy, it will be our responsibility. Everybody will ask Total, 'Why don't you have more oil?'
-
Look, you come in here tomorrow, and anything you do with your right hand I'll do with my left.
-
Our family brings a different amount of - not fame - attention.
-
A house is very much like a portrait. I cannot disconnect houses from people. The thought of arrangement, the curves and straight lines. It gives an indication of the character at the heart of it.
-
The evil that machinery is doing is not merely in the consequence of its work but in the fact that it makes men themselves machines also.
-
I'm a progressive. What I find is that a subsection within the left that instead of standing for consistency in progressive values, so feminism as applied to mainstream society, as well as within minority communities, gay rights to mainstream society as well as within minority communities.
-
To me, the best writing points to something literal or common but is also nuanced: The moment when somebody is telling you they love you while simultaneously disappointing you. Everybody's experienced that.
-
Which, of course, isn't the point of writing - but it would be nice if, along with the creative satisfaction of writing and seeing my work in print, I could do more than merely scrape a living. Okay, moaning over.
-
I think writing is a much more personal thing
-
If you do not love what you do, if you are not appropriately grateful for the chance to create something magical each time you sit down at the computer or with a pencil and paper in hand, somewhere along the way your writing will betray you.
