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
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 is what we have to sustain us in our endevors, to buttress us in our darker moments, and to remind us of our identity. Without those things, we are adrift.
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.
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.