Quote

The more complex and overwhelming the threat to a protagonist, the better the opportunity for the author to create a compelling conflict and a dramatic resolution.

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
Conflict
Compelling
Create
Resolution
Opportunity
Overwhelming
Better
Author
Writing
Dramatic
Complexes
Complex
Protagonist
Threat
Protagonists

More quotes by 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 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
You shouldn't believe everything you hear you're young, not stupid.
Terry Brooks
Image
Deception is mostly a game we play with ourselves.
Terry Brooks
Image
When I was a kid, we had to rely on our imaginations for entertainment.
Terry Brooks
Image
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
Image
Evil contained is not evil destroyed.
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
It's better to die in pursuit of your dreams than to live a life without hope.
Terry Brooks
Image
If I have the means, I have the responsibility to employ them.
Terry Brooks
Image
I cannot imagine life without books any more than I can imagine life without breathing.
Terry Brooks
Image
I want to kick-start your imagination and let you discover the places it can take you.
Terry Brooks
Image
What kind of world permitted such terrible injustice, where good men were stripped of everything and soulless creatures of malice and hatred survived to glory in their pointless death?
Terry Brooks
Image
If you do not hear music in your words, you have put too much thought into your writing and not enough heart.
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
Hurt leads to bitterness, bitterness to anger, travel too far that road and the way is lost.
Terry Brooks
Image
I haven't made up my mind about doing anymore Landover books.
Terry Brooks
Image
I think I make better use of language and imagery than when I started out.
Terry Brooks
Image
We forget that what matters begins with the imagination.
Terry Brooks
Image
What we have in life that we can count on is who we are and where we come from, she thought absently. For better or worse, that's what we have to sustain us in our endeavors, to buttress us in our darker moments, and to remind us of our identity. Without those things, we are adrift.
Terry Brooks