“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… — 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… — 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,… — Terry Brooks Copy Share Image
If you do not hear music in your words, you have put too much thought into your writing and not enough heart. — Terry Brooks Copy Share Image
What I want to write about has changed somewhat, and the scope of the storytelling has changed accordingly. — 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
If you don't think there is magic in writing, you probably won't write anything magical. — Terry Brooks Copy Share Image
I would also argue that there is a good chance that an outline will help you stave off any onslaught of writer's… — 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
There is much to admire in Peter Brett's writing, and his concept is brilliant. There's action and suspense all the way. — Terry Brooks Copy Share Image
This is for writers yet to be published who think the uphill climb will never end. Keep believing. This is also for… — 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
I might add that you change as a person as you grow older, so you change as a writer, too. — Terry Brooks Copy Share Image
If you are ever completely satisfied with something you have written, you are setting your sights too low. But if you can't… — Terry Brooks Copy Share Image
If you do not love what you do, if you are not appropriately grateful for the chance to create something magical each… — Terry Brooks Copy Share Image
The muse whispers to you when she chooses, and you can't tell her to come back later, because you quickly learn in… — Terry Brooks Copy Share Image
Fiction writers are strange beasts. They are, like all writers, observers first and foremost. Everything that happens to and around them is… — 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
Writing fantasy lets me imagine a great deal more than, say, writing about alligators, and lets me write about places more distant… — 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
“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
