Deception is mostly a game we play with ourselves. Terry Brooks More Quotes by Terry Brooks More Quotes From Terry Brooks If anything in your life is more important than writing - anything at all - you should walk away now while you still can. Forewarned is forearmed. For those who cannot or will not walk away, you need only to remember this. Writing is life. Breathe deeply of it. Terry Brooks important writing needs A cat never discusses his business with humans, not even Princesses. A cat never explains and never apologizes. A cat never alibis. You must accept a cat as it is and for what it is and not expect more than the pleasure of its company. Terry Brooks apologizing princess cat Well, I think that as a country, we've drifted away from appreciating the importance of imagination. Terry Brooks imagination country thinking A world in which elves exist and magic works offers greater opportunities to digress and explore. Terry Brooks magic opportunity world I might add that you change as a person as you grow older, so you change as a writer, too. Terry Brooks grows add might I haven't made up my mind about doing anymore Landover books. Terry Brooks made mind book The future is an ever-shifting maze of possibilities until it becomes the present. The future I have shown you tonight is not yet fixed. But it is more likely to become so with the passing of every day because nothing is being done to turn it aside. If you would change it, do as I have told you. Terry Brooks mazes tonight done Evil contained is not evil destroyed. Terry Brooks destroyed evil 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 new-york book fiction If you are always frightened for yourself you can't act, and then life loses its purpose. You just have to tell yourself that, when you get right down to it, you don't matter all that much. Terry Brooks frightened purpose matter Friendship doesn't have anything to do with shoring up weakness. It has to do with respect and consideration for those you care about. It has to do with wanting to give something back to those you admire. Terry Brooks weakness care giving I cannot imagine life without books any more than I can imagine life without breathing. Terry Brooks breathing healing book If you don't think there is magic in writing, you probably won't write anything magical. Terry Brooks magic writing thinking 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 other-worlds real want Lester del Rey told me repeatedly that the first and most important part of writing fiction is just to think about the story. Don't write anything down. Don't try to pull anything together right away. Just dream for a while and see what happens. There isn't any timetable involved, no measuring stick for how long it ought to take. For each book, it is different. But that period of thinking, of reflection, is crucial to how successful your story will turn out to be. Terry Brooks dream writing book Genocide is like a dessert. It is made of the flesh and bones of woman and children, it is sweetened with the blood of the innocent, and it is baked in the ovens of Auschwitz. There were truths to be learnt and there was wisdom to be gained... but there was a price to to be paid as well. You could not brush up against the future and escape unscathed. You could not see into the forbidden and avoid damage to your sight. Terry Brooks sight children blood I think I make better use of language and imagery than when I started out. Terry Brooks language use thinking 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 girl clever sky I want to kick-start your imagination and let you discover the places it can take you. Terry Brooks kicks imagination want I am incomplete without my work. I am so closely bound to it, so much identified by it, that without it I think I would crumble into dust and drift away. Terry Brooks incomplete dust thinking
