Quote

Even after Sword was published, I was still only thinking about the next book, Elfstones.

Terry Brooks

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Terry Brooks
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: January 8
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
Sterling
Illinois
Terence Dean Brooks
Stills
Still
Book
Even
Thinking
Sword
Published
Next

More quotes by Terry Brooks

Image
Nothing is lost that we do not first see as lost. Visions born of fear give birth to our failing. Visions born of hope give birth to our success. What is possible lives within us, and it only remains for us to discover it.
Terry Brooks
Image
I think I make better use of language and imagery than when I started out.
Terry Brooks
Image
I want to kick-start your imagination and let you discover the places it can take you.
Terry Brooks
Image
When she cried, he would say, there is nothing wrong with crying. Your feelings tell you who are. They tell what is important. Don't ever be ashamed of them.
Terry Brooks
Image
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
Image
My interests are different now than they were thirty years ago.
Terry Brooks
Image
We forget that what matters begins with the imagination.
Terry Brooks
Image
Evil contained is not evil destroyed.
Terry Brooks
Image
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
Image
A world in which elves exist and magic works offers greater opportunities to digress and explore.
Terry Brooks
Image
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
Image
She has her gown nicely in place tonight, doesn't she? Black velvet and sparkles, not a thread left hanging. Clever girl, this city. Even the sky is her friend.
Terry Brooks
Image
Cats can do whatever they want, whenever they want, without regard to what anyone says or does. Rather like Princesses.
Terry Brooks
Image
When I was a kid, we had to rely on our imaginations for entertainment.
Terry Brooks
Image
I have learned to do more with less, so you don't see the big books anymore.
Terry Brooks
Image
We live out our lives as we are meant to live them-with some choice, with some chance, but mostly as a result of the persons we are.
Terry Brooks
Image
Deception is mostly a game we play with ourselves.
Terry Brooks
Image
If you do not love what you do, if you are not appropriately grateful for the chance to create something magical each time you sit down at the computer or with a pencil and paper in hand, somewhere along the way your writing will betray you.
Terry Brooks
Image
Herein lies the heart and soul of the nations. Their right to be free men, Their desire to live in peace, Their courage to seek out truth, Herein lies the Sword of Shannara.
Terry Brooks
Image
I might add that you change as a person as you grow older, so you change as a writer, too.
Terry Brooks