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
Growing up, I didn't have a lot of toys, and personal entertainment depended on individual ingenuity and imagination - think up a story and go live it for an afternoon.
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.
what happens when a world destroys itself and must rebuild.
We'll be able to do something with these instead of grind 'em up.
It gets out of the waste stream, out of the landfills.
It's getting to a point where, I'm just hanging my head. I don't know how to respond to it.
They can do 40 a day, and we believe we're going to get up to 80 a day before too long.
What is interesting to me is how the characters respond, how they change and grow by facing what often seem overwhelming difficulties.
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.
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.
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.
If you live in the right county and get the right worker, you're going to win.
But I am the same storyteller as always.
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.