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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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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Hurt leads to bitterness, bitterness to anger, travel too far that road and the way is lost.
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If you don't think there is magic in writing, you probably won't write anything magical.
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The reader wants to see something happen between pages one and four hundred, and nothing happens if the characters don't change.
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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.
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Deception is mostly a game we play with ourselves.