Terry Brooks Quotes

United States, Writer
January 8, 1944

Terence Dean Brooks is an American writer of fantasy fiction. He writes mainly epic fantasy, and has also written two movie novelizations. He has written 23 New York Times bestsellers during his writing career, and has over 21 million copies of his books in print. He is one of the biggest-selling living fantasy writers

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

Terry Brooks
- Book
- Learned
You shouldn't believe everything you hear you're young, not stupid.

Terry Brooks
- Stupid
- Young

The reader wants to see something happen between pages one and four hundred, and nothing happens if the characters don't change.

Terry Brooks
- Character
- Reader
- Hundred
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.

Terry Brooks
We should not be less than what we are.

Terry Brooks
- Should
If you are ever completely satisfied with something you have written, you are setting your sights too low. But if you can't let go of your material even after you have done the best that you can with it, you are setting your sights too high.

Terry Brooks
Deception is mostly a game we play with ourselves.

Terry Brooks
- Play
- Games
- Deception