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
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.
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.
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.
What is interesting to me is how the characters respond, how they change and grow by facing what often seem overwhelming difficulties.
It's getting to a point where, I'm just hanging my head. I don't know how to respond to it.
what happens when a world destroys itself and must rebuild.
It gets out of the waste stream, out of the landfills.
But I am the same storyteller as always.
If you live in the right county and get the right worker, you're going to win.
In Running with the Demon, I wanted to say something about the nature of childhood, and what it's like to grow up in a small town.
The community, the city that I live in, we're trying to clean the community up, to bring it up, ... We can't tolerate anybody that's going to bring it down so, in my opinion, these guys needed to go.