Quote

Fantasy allows you bend the world and the situation to more clearly focus on the moral aspects of what's happening. In fantasy you can distill life down to the essence of your story.

Terry Goodkind

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Terry Goodkind
Age: 72 †
Born: 1948
Born: January 14
Died: 2020
Died: September 17
Novelist
Writer
Omaha
Nebraska
Terry Lee Goodkind
World
Aspect
Distill
Essence
Bend
Focus
Aspects
Situation
Allows
Moral
Clearly
Story
Happenings
Stories
Happening
Life
Fantasy

More quotes by Terry Goodkind

Image
People need an enemy to feel a sense of purpose.
Terry Goodkind
Image
Wrong doing must be punished. If not, it will proliferate until anarchy wears the robes of tolerance and understanding.
Terry Goodkind
Image
Sometimes, making the wrong choice is better than making no choice. You have the courage to go forward, that is rare. A person who stands at the fork, unable to pick, will never get anywhere.
Terry Goodkind
Image
To love someone means that you sometimes are fulfilled the most by putting thier deepest desires above your own.
Terry Goodkind
Image
I had to live this long, have the experiences I've had, to create what I do. I knew I wanted to write for years, but I had to be ready so I wouldn't blow it. The move to Maine was the final step.
Terry Goodkind
Image
Every person's life is theirs by right. An individual's life can and must belong only to to himself, not to any society or community, or he is then but a slave.
Terry Goodkind
Image
Once you teach me something, it's mine to use.
Terry Goodkind
Image
Others made you into who you were. You made yourself into what you have become.
Terry Goodkind
Image
If the road is easy, you're likely going the wrong way.
Terry Goodkind
Image
Honor is honesty to what is, not blind duty to what you wish to be.
Terry Goodkind
Image
Sometimes, it is necessary to step beyond what you have known and to reach for something more.
Terry Goodkind
Image
Once you place that crown of liar on your head, you can take it off again, but it leaves a stain for all time.
Terry Goodkind
Image
How do you know who I am?' Denna grinned, almost laughed. 'To know Richard is to know who Kahlan is.
Terry Goodkind
Image
But in the end, we can’t live our lives by ‘what if’ and ‘if only.’ We can only do the best we can to the best of our ability based on what we know. That’s why the truth is so important.
Terry Goodkind
Image
That's what friends are for-to be strong for you when you need a moment to find your own strength.
Terry Goodkind
Image
Charity, if you have the means, is a personal choice, but charity which is expected or compelled is simply a polite word for slavery.
Terry Goodkind
Image
Never let a beautiful woman pick your path for you when there is a man in her line of sight
Terry Goodkind
Image
Her green eyes came unafraid to his. The connection was so intense that it threatened to drain his sense of self. He felt that he had always known her, that she had always been a part of him, that her needs were his needs.
Terry Goodkind
Image
It does the sheep no good to preach the goodness of a diet of grass, if the wolves are of a different mind.
Terry Goodkind
Image
Enemies,' the wizard said, 'are the price of honour.
Terry Goodkind