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
When I was a kid, we had to rely on our imaginations for entertainment.
Well, I think that as a country, we've drifted away from appreciating the importance of imagination.
I want to kick-start your imagination and let you discover the places it can take you.
We forget that what matters begins with the imagination.
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.