"If you are ever completely satisfied with something……" — Terry Brooks
"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 your material even after you have done the best that you can with it, you are setting your sights too high."
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75 Quotes by Terry Brooks
Terry Brooks has 75 quotes on this site.
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Hurt leads to bitterness, bitterness to anger, travel too far that road and the way is lost.
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Growing up, I didn't have a lot of toys, and personal entertainment depended on individual ingenuity and imagination - think…
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Even after Sword was published, I was still only thinking about the next book, Elfstones.
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What I want to write about has changed somewhat, and the scope of the storytelling has changed accordingly.
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I didn't want readers to have to make allowances for what they couldn't see, but to be able to say…
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My breakthrough as a reader was when I discovered the European adventure story writers - Alexander Dumas, Robert Louis Stevenson,…
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Fantasy is the only canvas large enough for me to paint on.
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Genocide is like a dessert. It is made of the flesh and bones of woman and children, it is sweetened…
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We are constantly being put to the test by trying circumstances and difficult people and problems not necessarily of our…
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I cannot imagine life without books any more than I can imagine life without breathing.
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When I was a kid, we had to rely on our imaginations for entertainment.
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Testing of self is a regular part of our own lives, so it seems natural to make it a part…
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