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Terry Brooks
American
Writer
About the author
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,
American
Writer
#Writing
#Fantasy
#Connection
What I want to write about has changed somewhat, and the scope of the storytelling has changed accordingly.
Terry Brooks,
American
Writer
#Want
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,
American
Writer
#Want
#World
#Experience
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.
Terry Brooks,
American
Writer
#Action
#Weather
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,
American
Writer
#Writers
#Name
#Adventure
My interests are different now than they were thirty years ago.
Terry Brooks,
American
Writer
#Now
#Years
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,
American
Writer
#People
#Mind
#Stress
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.
Terry Brooks,
American
Writer
#Self
#Testing
We are constantly being put to the test by trying circumstances and difficult people and problems not necessarily of our own making.
Terry Brooks,
American
Writer
#People
#Problems
#Being
#Trying
#Circumstances
Well, I think that as a country, we've drifted away from appreciating the importance of imagination.
Terry Brooks,
American
Writer
#Country
#Imagination
#Importance
I want to kick-start your imagination and let you discover the places it can take you.
Terry Brooks,
American
Writer
#Want
#Imagination
I have learned to do more with less, so you don't see the big books anymore.
Terry Brooks,
American
Writer
#Books
When I was a kid, we had to rely on our imaginations for entertainment.
Terry Brooks,
American
Writer
#Entertainment
We forget that what matters begins with the imagination.
Terry Brooks,
American
Writer
#Forget
#Imagination
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.
Terry Brooks,
American
Writer
#Imagination
#Entertainment
#Growing up
I might add that you change as a person as you grow older, so you change as a writer, too.
Terry Brooks,
American
Writer
#Writer
#Change
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,
American
Writer
#Universe
#Shame
A world in which elves exist and magic works offers greater opportunities to digress and explore.
Terry Brooks,
American
Writer
#World
#Magic
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,
American
Writer
#Work
#First
#Books
#Trade
#Fiction
Even after Sword was published, I was still only thinking about the next book, Elfstones.
Terry Brooks,
American
Writer
#Thinking
For a writer, its very attractive to stay in one world for a time.
Terry Brooks,
American
Writer
#Time
#World
#Writer
Hurt leads to bitterness, bitterness to anger, travel too far that road and the way is lost.
Terry Brooks,
American
Writer
#Hurt
#Anger
#Road
#Travel
#Bitterness
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,
American
Writer
#Want
#Magic
I haven't made up my mind about doing anymore Landover books.
Terry Brooks,
American
Writer
#Books
#Mind
I think I make better use of language and imagery than when I started out.
Terry Brooks,
American
Writer
#Language
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.
Terry Brooks,
American
Writer
#Winter
Fantasy is the only canvas large enough for me to paint on.
Terry Brooks,
American
Writer
#Fantasy