Terry Brooks
Terry Brooks
Terence Dean "Terry" Brooksis an American writer of fantasy fiction. He writes mainly epic fantasy, and has also written two movie novelizations. He has written 23 New York Times bestsellers during his writing career, and has over 21 million copies of his books in print. He is one of the biggest-selling living fantasy writers...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth8 January 1944
CitySterling, IL
CountryUnited States of America
This is my 25th book over 28 years, and to still be able to write a book and be a best seller again is remarkable. I'm impressed, myself, and very grateful.
I cannot imagine life without books any more than I can imagine life without breathing.
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.
Even after Sword was published, I was still only thinking about the next book, Elfstones.
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.
I have learned to do more with less, so you don't see the big books anymore.
The Golden Compass is one of the best fantasy / adventure stories that I have read. This is a book no one should miss.
I haven't made up my mind about doing anymore Landover books.
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.
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.
We'll be able to do something with these instead of grind 'em up.
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.
One summer we played for a week at being Knights of the Round Table, using broom handles as swords and lances and metal garbage can lids as shields.
I had wanted to do a dark fantasy set in the present in our own world for some time, but I didn't have what I felt was the right vehicle.