Author Profile
Terry Brooks
1944 • American • Writer
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Collected Meditations
Showing 27 quotesI want to kick-start your imagination and let you discover the places it can take you.— Terry Brooks
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.— Terry Brooks
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 Times trade paperback bestseller list.— Terry Brooks
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.— Terry Brooks
Even after Sword was published, I was still only thinking about the next book, Elfstones.— Terry Brooks
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 things about the real world.— Terry Brooks
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.— Terry Brooks
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.— Terry Brooks
My breakthrough as a reader was when I discovered the European adventure story writers - Alexander Dumas, Robert Louis Stevenson, Sir Walter Scott, to name a few.— Terry Brooks
We are constantly being put to the test by trying circumstances and difficult people and problems not necessarily of our own making.— Terry Brooks