"The more complex and overwhelming the threat to……" — Terry Brooks
"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 resolution."
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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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More Author Quotes
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If you feel that there's the author and then the character, then the book is not working. People have a…
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The difference is slight, to the influence of an author, whether he is read by five hundred readers, or by…
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After an author has been dead for some time, it becomes increasingly difficult for his publishers to get a new…
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I have been told by hospital authorities that more copies of my works are left behind by departing patients than…
— Robert Benchley
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There is a note in the front of the volume saying that no public reading may be given without first…
— Robert Benchley
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Faith in the Lord Jesus Christ is the foundation upon which sincere and meaningful repentance must be built. If we…
— Ezra Taft Benson
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Once the curtain is raised, the actor is ceases to belong to himself. He belongs to his character, to his…
— Sarah Bernhardt
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You know, we love stories and we love narrative; we love to get lost in an author's world.
— Jeff Bezos
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I'm most impressed by the Russian writers, so I love reading the works of Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky. Another author who…
— Andrea Bocelli
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If Shakespeare had to go on an author tour to promote Romeo and Juliet, he never would have written Macbeth.
— Joyce Brothers
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Making a book is a craft, like making a clock; it needs more than native wit to be an author.
— Jean de la Bruyere
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The idea is to become a best-selling author first and then the rest of my books will be slam dunks.
— Nolan Bushnell
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