Terry Brooks Quotes

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• Hurt leads to bitterness, bitterness to anger, travel too far that road and the way is lost.
• 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…
• Even after Sword was published, I was still only thinking about the next book, Elfstones.
• What I want to write about has changed somewhat, and the scope of the storytelling has changed accordingly.
• 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…
• My breakthrough as a reader was when I discovered the European adventure story writers - Alexander Dumas, Robert Louis Stevenson, Sir Walter Scott, to name…
• Fantasy is the only canvas large enough for me to paint on.
• Genocide is like a dessert. It is made of the flesh and bones of woman and children, it is sweetened with the blood of the…
• We are constantly being put to the test by trying circumstances and difficult people and problems not necessarily of our own making.
• I cannot imagine life without books any more than I can imagine life without breathing.
• When I was a kid, we had to rely on our imaginations for entertainment.
• 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…
• For a writer, its very attractive to stay in one world for a time.
• A world in which elves exist and magic works offers greater opportunities to digress and explore.
• 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…
• My interests are different now than they were thirty years ago.
• We should not be less than what we are.
• 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…
• Friendship doesn't have anything to do with shoring up weakness. It has to do with respect and consideration for those you care about. It has…
• If you don't think there is magic in writing, you probably won't write anything magical.

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