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
A world in which elves exist and magic works offers greater opportunities to digress and explore.
If you don't think there is magic in writing, you probably won't write anything magical.
I didn't want readers to have to make allowances for what they couldn't see, but to be able to say to themselves that the fabric of the magic detailed was perfectly believable.
The unicorns were the most recognizable magic the fairies possessed, and they sent them to those worlds where belief in the magic was in danger of falling altogether. After all there has to be some belief in magic- however small- for any world to survive.
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.