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 More Quotes by Terry Brooks More Quotes From Terry Brooks The unicorns were the most recognizable magic the fairies possessed, and they sent them to those worlds where belief in the magic was in danger of falling altogether. After all there has to be some belief in magic- however small- for any world to survive. Terry Brooks magic world fall We forget that what matters begins with the imagination. Terry Brooks what-matters imagination matter Let me tell you something you haven't learned yet, something you learn only by living awhile. As you get older, you find that life begins to wear you down. Doesn't matter who you are or what you do, it happens. Experience, time, events - they all conspire against you to steal away your energy, to erode your confidence, to make you question things you wouldn't have given a second thought to when you were young. It happens gradually, a chipping away that you don't even notice at first, and then one day it's there. You wake up and you just don't have the fire anymore." He smiled. Terry Brooks one-day energy fire We must nurture and love, if life is to have any real meaning. But First we must find a way to survive against the things that prevent us from doing so. Terry Brooks and-love real way 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 vision giving firsts If you do not hear music in your words, you have put too much thought into your writing and not enough heart. Terry Brooks too-much heart writing Why pretend to be something you're not? If you have to be someone, be someone no one else is. Terry Brooks ifs Fear is a fire to temper courage and resolve. Use it so. Terry Brooks temper use fire Hurt leads to bitterness, bitterness to anger, travel too far that road and the way is lost. Terry Brooks anger hurt travel The muse whispers to you when she chooses, and you can't tell her to come back later, because you quickly learn in this business that she might not come back at all. Terry Brooks muse writing might This is for writers yet to be published who think the uphill climb will never end. Keep believing. This is also for published writers grown jaded by the process. Remember how lucky you are. Terry Brooks writing believe thinking 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 results chance choices On 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. Terry Brooks stress writing book In bad weather, I spent hours drawing action figures on paper, coloring them, backing them on cardboard, then cutting them out and creating whole stories around their lives. Terry Brooks drawing cutting weather You spend so much time wondering who you are, don't you think? You flounder about, searching for your identity, when most of the time it is plain as the nose on your face. You struggle with questions of purpose and need, and forget that the answers are found mostly inside yourselves. Terry Brooks identity struggle thinking Fantasy is the only canvas large enough for me to paint on. Terry Brooks canvas fantasy enough 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. Terry Brooks different self character Who would you be but who you are? Terry Brooks individualism who-you-are We should not be less than what we are. Terry Brooks should The future is an ever-shifting maze of possibilities until it becomes the present Terry Brooks mazes shifting possibility
