Terry Brooks's Profile
Brief about Terry Brooks: By info that we know Terry Brooks was born at 1944-01-08. And also Terry Brooks is American Writer.
Some Terry Brooks's quotes. Goto "Terry Brooks's quotation" section for more.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.
Tags: Lives, Seems, SelfWriting 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.
Tags: Great, Tell, WritingHurt leads to bitterness, bitterness to anger, travel too far that road and the way is lost.
Tags: Anger, Hurt, TravelGrowing 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.
Tags: Personal, Story, TeenWe are constantly being put to the test by trying circumstances and difficult people and problems not necessarily of our own making.
Tags: Problems, Put, TryingEven after Sword was published, I was still only thinking about the next book, Elfstones.
Tags: After, Book, ThinkingI 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.
Tags: Another, Away, RememberA world in which elves exist and magic works offers greater opportunities to digress and explore.
Tags: Greater, Magic, WorksAfter 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.
Tags: After, Put, UniverseI have learned to do more with less, so you don't see the big books anymore.
Tags: Big, Learned, LessI might add that you change as a person as you grow older, so you change as a writer, too.
Tags: Change, Might, OlderI think I make better use of language and imagery than when I started out.
Tags: Imagery, Language, StartedI want to kick-start your imagination and let you discover the places it can take you.
Tags: Discover, PlacesOn 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.
Tags: Book, Mind, StressWell, I think that as a country, we've drifted away from appreciating the importance of imagination.
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