Terry Brooks Quotes

We should not be less than what we are.

The future is an ever-shifting maze of possibilities until it becomes the present

...[Y]ou have an inner strength that makes it possible for you to do things other people couldn't even begin to think of doing.

When I was a kid, we had to rely on our imaginations for entertainment.

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.

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.

The more complex and overwhelming the threat to a protagonist, the better the opportunity for the author to create a compelling conflict and a dramatic resolution.

What you write chooses you.

What I want to write about has changed somewhat, and the scope of the storytelling has changed accordingly.

But your responsibilities are sometimes given you without choice, without consent.

Nothing is lost that we do not first see as lost, High Lord. Believe it saved, and it may be. Visions born of fear give birth to our failing. Visions born of hope give birth to our success.

There are many forms of magic in this world, High Lord. Some come in large packages, some in small. Some work with fire and strength of body and heard ... and some work with revelation.

Anyway, that's the past, and what matters is the future. That's how life works, because it's short and precious and kind of doubtful.

What they didn't want to believe, what they tried repeatedly to dismiss, was that whatever good and evil existed in the world came from within themselves and not from some abstract source.

There was that sense of abandoning the familiar for the unknown that characterizes all journeys made for the first time.

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