The Golden Compass is one of the best fantasy / adventure stories that I have read. This is a book no one… — Terry Brooks Copy Share Image
The reader wants to see something happen between pages one and four hundred, and nothing happens if the characters don't change. — Terry Brooks Copy Share Image
You can get away with breaking all of the other rules at least once in a while, but you can't get away… — Terry Brooks Copy Share Image
Lester del Rey told me repeatedly that the first and most important part of writing fiction is just to think about the… — Terry Brooks Copy Share Image
On the other hand, I still approach each book with the same basic plan in mind - to put some people under… — Terry Brooks Copy Share Image
Even after Sword was published, I was still only thinking about the next book, Elfstones. — Terry Brooks Copy Share Image
Anyway, several rewrites later, Del Rey Books did publish my first novel, and it did become the first work of fiction on… — Terry Brooks Copy Share Image
There is poetry in fiction. If you cannot see it and feel it when you write, you need to step back and… — Terry Brooks Copy Share Image
My breakthrough as a reader was when I discovered the European adventure story writers - Alexander Dumas, Robert Louis Stevenson, Sir Walter… — Terry Brooks Copy Share Image
I want you, as a reader, to experience what I experience, to let that other world, that imaginary world that I have… — Terry Brooks Copy Share Image
The more complex and overwhelming the threat to a protagonist, the better the opportunity for the author to create a compelling conflict… — Terry Brooks Copy Share Image
I have learned to do more with less, so you don't see the big books anymore. — Terry Brooks Copy Share Image
I didn't want readers to have to make allowances for what they couldn't see, but to be able to say to themselves… — Terry Brooks Copy Share Image
I cannot imagine life without books any more than I can imagine life without breathing. — Terry Brooks Copy Share Image
“a kaleidoscopic, fragmented rush of images that exploded out of memory. They careened into her like an avalanche and swept her away,” — Terry Brooks Copy Share Image
Might have, could have, may have, should have—the haves and have nots reduced to pointless possibilities. — Terry Brooks Copy Share Image
“You spend so much time wondering who you are, don't you think? You flounder about, searching for your identity, when most of the time… — Terry Brooks Copy Share Image
“Writers need their writing; they need their imaginary worlds in order to find piece in, or make sense of, the real world.” — Terry Brooks Copy Share Image
THE NAME OF THE WIND marks the debut of a writer we would all do well to watch. Patrick Rothfuss has real talent, and… — Terry Brooks Copy Share Image
If anything in your life is more important than writing - anything at all - you should walk away now while you still can.… — Terry Brooks Copy Share Image
We are constantly being put to the test by trying circumstances and difficult people and problems not necessarily of our own making. — Terry Brooks Copy Share Image
The Golden Compass is one of the best fantasy / adventure stories that I have read. This is a book no one should miss. — Terry Brooks Copy Share Image
I am incomplete without my work. I am so closely bound to it, so much identified by it, that without it I think I… — Terry Brooks Copy Share Image
We must nurture and love, if life is to have any real meaning. But First we must find a way to survive against the… — Terry Brooks Copy Share Image
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… — Terry Brooks Copy Share Image
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… — Terry Brooks Copy Share Image
