My interests are different now than they were thirty years ago. Terry Brooks More Quotes by Terry Brooks More Quotes From Terry Brooks Might have, could have, may have, should have—the haves and have nots reduced to pointless possibilities. Terry Brooks should-have may might We are constantly being put to the test by trying circumstances and difficult people and problems not necessarily of our own making. Terry Brooks tests fake-people trying 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 hatred men life If I have the means, I have the responsibility to employ them. Terry Brooks responsibility ifs mean When I was a kid, we had to rely on our imaginations for entertainment. Terry Brooks entertainment imagination kids You shouldn't believe everything you hear you're young, not stupid. Terry Brooks stupid young believe It's better to die in pursuit of your dreams than to live a life without hope. Terry Brooks without-hope pursuit dream You can get away with breaking all of the other rules at least once in a while, but you can't get away with breaking this one. Readers will accept almost anything from you if you don't make them feel they have wasted their time and money. Remember, you can bore readers in a lot of different ways. It doesn't necessarily take a dearth of action; too much action can get you the same result. Everything in writing, like in life, requires balance. Terry Brooks remembers-you remember-you writing 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 conflict writing opportunity 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 grateful writing hands Growing up, I didn't have a lot of toys, and personal entertainment depended on individual ingenuity and imagination - think up a story and go live it for an afternoon. Terry Brooks teenager growing-up inspirational There is poetry in fiction. If you cannot see it and feel it when you write, you need to step back and examine what you are doing wrong. If you have not figured out how to write a simple declarative sentence and make it sing with that poetry, you are not yet ready to write an entire book. Terry Brooks simple writing book The reader wants to see something happen between pages one and four hundred, and nothing happens if the characters don't change. Terry Brooks four want character You can either give in to what youre feeling, just say ‘okay, enough is enough’ and be done with it, or you can fight it. Terry Brooks fighting feelings giving I remember one winter, when I was about five or six, I spent three days with another boy, tracking a bobcat that had been sighted in another county fifty miles away, but which I was sure had come into our neighborhood. Terry Brooks three winter boys I have learned to do more with less, so you don't see the big books anymore. Terry Brooks big-book bigs book I would also argue that there is a good chance that an outline will help you stave off any onslaught of writer's block. Let me advise you right up front that I am not a big believer in writer's block. I think writer's block is God's way of telling you one of two things - that you failed to think your material through sufficiently before you started writing, or that you need a day or two off with your family and friends. Terry Brooks block writing thinking The Golden Compass is one of the best fantasy / adventure stories that I have read. This is a book no one should miss. Terry Brooks missing adventure book There is much to admire in Peter Brett's writing, and his concept is brilliant. There's action and suspense all the way. Terry Brooks suspense writing way Fiction writers are strange beasts. They are, like all writers, observers first and foremost. Everything that happens to and around them is potential material for a story, and they look at it that way. Terry Brooks writing looks fiction
