My interests are different now than they were thirty years ago. Terry Brooks More Quotes by Terry Brooks More Quotes From Terry Brooks 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 When she cried, he would say, "there is nothing wrong with crying. Your feelings tell you who are. They tell what is important. Don't ever be ashamed of them. Terry Brooks important feelings inspirational Herein lies the heart and soul of the nations. Their right to be free men, Their desire to live in peace, Their courage to seek out truth, Herein lies the Sword of Shannara. Terry Brooks heart men lying Faith, Princess," the Prism Cat repeated. "It is a highly underrated weapon against the dark things in this world. Terry Brooks princess cat dark 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 names europe adventure ...[Y]ou have an inner strength that makes it possible for you to do things other people couldn't even begin to think of doing. Terry Brooks inner-strength people thinking For a writer, its very attractive to stay in one world for a time. Terry Brooks attractive world What you write chooses you. Terry Brooks writing THE NAME OF THE WIND marks the debut of a writer we would all do well to watch. Patrick Rothfuss has real talent, and his tale of Kvothe is deep and intricate and wondrous. Terry Brooks real names wind I didn't want readers to have to make allowances for what they couldn't see, but to be able to say to themselves that the fabric of the magic detailed was perfectly believable. Terry Brooks fabric magic want If you are ever completely satisfied with something you have written, you are setting your sights too low. But if you can't let go of your material even after you have done the best that you can with it, you are setting your sights too high. Terry Brooks sight letting-go writing What I want to write about has changed somewhat, and the scope of the storytelling has changed accordingly. Terry Brooks storytelling want writing Fiction writing is a twenty-four-hou r-a-day occupation. You never leave your work behind. It is always with you, and to some extent, you are always thinking about it. You don't take your work home; your work never leaves home. It lives inside you. It resides and grows and comes alive in your mind. Terry Brooks home writing thinking Writing fantasy lets me imagine a great deal more than, say, writing about alligators, and lets me write about places more distant than Florida, but I can tell you things about Florida and alligators, let you make the connection all on your own. Terry Brooks florida connections writing Even after Sword was published, I was still only thinking about the next book, Elfstones. Terry Brooks next book thinking 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 adrift where-we-come identity Cats can do whatever they want, whenever they want, without regard to what anyone says or does. Rather like Princesses. Terry Brooks princess cat attitude 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 creating use writing
