Terry Brooks Quotes
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I have learned to do more with less, so you don't see the big books anymore.
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Even after Sword was published, I was still only thinking about the next book, Elfstones.
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I haven't made up my mind about doing anymore Landover books.
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If anything in your life is more important than writing - anything at all - you should walk away now while you still can. Forewarned is forearmed. For those who cannot or will not walk away, you need only to remember this. Writing is life. Breathe deeply of it.
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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.
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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.
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Herein lies the heart and soul of the nations. Their right to be free men, Their desire to live in peace, Their courage to seek out truth, Herein lies the Sword of Shannara.
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The Golden Compass is one of the best fantasy / adventure stories that I have read. This is a book no one should miss.
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We forget that what matters begins with the imagination.
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Fiction writing is a twenty-four-hou r-a-day occupation. You never leave your work behind. It is always with you, and to some extent, you are always thinking about it. You don't take your work home; your work never leaves home. It lives inside you. It resides and grows and comes alive in your mind.
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If I have the means, I have the responsibility to employ them.
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If you are always frightened for yourself you can't act, and then life loses its purpose. You just have to tell yourself that, when you get right down to it, you don't matter all that much.
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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.
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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.
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When she cried, he would say, "there is nothing wrong with crying. Your feelings tell you who are. They tell what is important. Don't ever be ashamed of them.
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I might add that you change as a person as you grow older, so you change as a writer, too.
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It's better to die in pursuit of your dreams than to live a life without hope.
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You can get away with breaking all of the other rules at least once in a while, but you can't get away with breaking this one. Readers will accept almost anything from you if you don't make them feel they have wasted their time and money. Remember, you can bore readers in a lot of different ways. It doesn't necessarily take a dearth of action; too much action can get you the same result. Everything in writing, like in life, requires balance.
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There is poetry in fiction. If you cannot see it and feel it when you write, you need to step back and examine what you are doing wrong. If you have not figured out how to write a simple declarative sentence and make it sing with that poetry, you are not yet ready to write an entire book.
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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.
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We are constantly being put to the test by trying circumstances and difficult people and problems not necessarily of our own making.
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Fear is a fire to temper courage and resolve. Use it so.
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We live out our lives as we are meant to live them-with some choice, with some chance, but mostly as a result of the persons we are.
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You shouldn't believe everything you hear you're young, not stupid.