Terry Brooks Quotes

Hurt leads to bitterness, bitterness to anger, travel too far that road and the way is lost.

This is for writers yet to be published who think the uphill climb will never end. Keep believing. This is also for published writers grown jaded by the process. Remember how lucky you are.

The muse whispers to you when she chooses, and you can't tell her to come back later, because you quickly learn in this business that she might not come back at all.

If you do not hear music in your words, you have put too much thought into your writing and not enough heart.

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.

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.

Fear is a fire to temper courage and resolve. Use it so.

We forget that what matters begins with the imagination.

My breakthrough as a reader was when I discovered the European adventure story writers - Alexander Dumas, Robert Louis Stevenson, Sir Walter Scott, to name a few.

Fantasy is the only canvas large enough for me to paint on.

Why pretend to be something you're not? If you have to be someone, be someone no one else is.

We must nurture and love, if life is to have any real meaning. But First we must find a way to survive against the things that prevent us from doing so.

You can either give in to what youre feeling, just say ‘okay, enough is enough’ and be done with it, or you can fight it.

Deception is mostly a game we play with ourselves.

I didn't want readers to have to make allowances for what they couldn't see, but to be able to say to themselves that the fabric of the magic detailed was perfectly believable.

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.

We are constantly being put to the test by trying circumstances and difficult people and problems not necessarily of our own making.

On the other hand, I still approach each book with the same basic plan in mind - to put some people under severe stress and see how they hold up.

What kind of world permitted such terrible injustice, where good men were stripped of everything and soulless creatures of malice and hatred survived to glory in their pointless death?

Anyway, several rewrites later, Del Rey Books did publish my first novel, and it did become the first work of fiction on the New York Times trade paperback bestseller list.

THE NAME OF THE WIND marks the debut of a writer we would all do well to watch. Patrick Rothfuss has real talent, and his tale of Kvothe is deep and intricate and wondrous.

A world in which elves exist and magic works offers greater opportunities to digress and explore.

I want to kick-start your imagination and let you discover the places it can take you.

Might have, could have, may have, should have—the haves and have nots reduced to pointless possibilities.

It's better to die in pursuit of your dreams than to live a life without hope.

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.

You shouldn't believe everything you hear you're young, not stupid.

Cats can do whatever they want, whenever they want, without regard to what anyone says or does. Rather like Princesses.

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.

Who would you be but who you are?

If you don't think there is magic in writing, you probably won't write anything magical.

I haven't made up my mind about doing anymore Landover books.

If I have the means, I have the responsibility to employ them.

There is much to admire in Peter Brett's writing, and his concept is brilliant. There's action and suspense all the way.

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.

I think I make better use of language and imagery than when I started out.

Even after Sword was published, I was still only thinking about the next book, Elfstones.

For a writer, its very attractive to stay in one world for a time.

The Golden Compass is one of the best fantasy / adventure stories that I have read. This is a book no one should miss.

Well, I think that as a country, we've drifted away from appreciating the importance of imagination.

My interests are different now than they were thirty years ago.

Faith, Princess," the Prism Cat repeated. "It is a highly underrated weapon against the dark things in this world.

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

She has her gown nicely in place tonight, doesn't she? Black velvet and sparkles, not a thread left hanging. Clever girl, this city. Even the sky is her friend.

I am incomplete without my work. I am so closely bound to it, so much identified by it, that without it I think I would crumble into dust and drift away.

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

Evil contained is not evil destroyed.

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.

I cannot imagine life without books any more than I can imagine life without breathing.

I might add that you change as a person as you grow older, so you change as a writer, too.