Words matter. These are the best Terry Brooks Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
For a writer, its very attractive to stay in one world for a time.
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 around their lives.
Well, I think that as a country, we’ve drifted away from appreciating the importance of imagination.
I have learned to do more with less, so you don’t see the big books anymore.
Even after Sword was published, I was still only thinking about the next book, Elfstones.
My interests are different now than they were thirty years ago.
I think I make better use of language and imagery than when I started out.
On the other hand, I still approach each book with the same basic plan in mind – to put some people under severe stress and see how they hold up.
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 I can tell you things about Florida and alligators, let you make the connection all on your own.
After all, you put a lot into creating a universe and everything that goes with it, and it seems a shame to use it only once.
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 of the magic detailed was perfectly believable.
I want to kick-start your imagination and let you discover the places it can take you.
I haven’t made up my mind about doing anymore Landover books.
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 live it for an afternoon.
We forget that what matters begins with the imagination.
What I want to write about has changed somewhat, and the scope of the storytelling has changed accordingly.
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 in another county fifty miles away, but which I was sure had come into our neighborhood.
A world in which elves exist and magic works offers greater opportunities to digress and explore.
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 characters, as well, albeit on a much different level.
When I was a kid, we had to rely on our imaginations for entertainment.
