All Terry Brooks Quotes
- If you are ever completely satisfied with something you have written, you are setting your sights too low. But if you can't let go of… Best
- 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… All
- 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 always… Alive
- Writing fantasy lets me imagine a great deal more than, say, writing about alligators, and lets me write about places more distant than Florida, but… All
- 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… Action
- I haven't made up my mind about doing anymore Landover books. Anymore
- 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. Either Give
- The reader wants to see something happen between pages one and four hundred, and nothing happens if the characters don't change. Change
- Fiction writers are strange beasts. They are, like all writers, observers first and foremost. Everything that happens to and around them is potential material for… All
- There is poetry in fiction. If you cannot see it and feel it when you write, you need to step back and examine what you… Book
- I would also argue that there is a good chance that an outline will help you stave off any onslaught of writer's block. Let me… Advise
- If you do not love what you do, if you are not appropriately grateful for the chance to create something magical each time you sit… Along
- 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… Author
- You can get away with breaking all of the other rules at least once in a while, but you can't get away with breaking this… Accept
- I remember one winter, when I was about five or six, I spent three days with another boy, tracking a bobcat that had been sighted… Another Boy
- I have learned to do more with less, so you don't see the big books anymore. Anymore
- I might add that you change as a person as you grow older, so you change as a writer, too. Add
- I think I make better use of language and imagery than when I started out. Better
- I want to kick-start your imagination and let you discover the places it can take you. Discover
- We forget that what matters begins with the imagination. Begins
- Well, I think that as a country, we've drifted away from appreciating the importance of imagination. Appreciate
- 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… Created
- A cat never discusses his business with humans, not even Princesses. A cat never explains and never apologizes. A cat never alibis. You must accept… Accept
- If anything in your life is more important than writing - anything at all - you should walk away now while you still can. Forewarned… All
- Who would you be but who you are? Individualism