Terry Brooks Quotes
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What you write chooses you.
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Nothing is lost that we do not first see as lost. Visions born of fear give birth to our failing. Visions born of hope give birth to our success. What is possible lives within us, and it only remains for us to discover it.
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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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I haven't made up my mind about doing anymore Landover books.
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Even after Sword was published, I was still only thinking about the next book, Elfstones.
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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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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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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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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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If I have the means, I have the responsibility to employ them.
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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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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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We forget that what matters begins with the imagination.
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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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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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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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I might add that you change as a person as you grow older, so you change as a writer, too.
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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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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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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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Fear is a fire to temper courage and resolve. Use it so.
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You shouldn't believe everything you hear you're young, not stupid.
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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.