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Terry Brooks Quotes
Terry Brooks
American
Writer
Born:
Jan 8
,
1944
About
Imagination
Own
Think
World
You
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Hurt leads to bitterness, bitterness to anger, travel too far that road and the way is lost.
Terry Brooks
Travel
Anger
Hurt
Bitterness
Lost
Too
Way
Road
Leads
Far
Well, I think that as a country, we've drifted away from appreciating the importance of imagination.
Terry Brooks
Country
Think
Imagination
Appreciating
Drifted
Importance
Well
Away
A world in which elves exist and magic works offers greater opportunities to digress and explore.
Terry Brooks
World
Opportunities
Elves
Magic
Greater
Exist
Offers
Which
Explore
Works
I haven't made up my mind about doing anymore Landover books.
Terry Brooks
Mind
Made
Books
About
Doing
Up
Anymore
Even after Sword was published, I was still only thinking about the next book, Elfstones.
Terry Brooks
Book
Thinking
About
Only
Still
After
Next
Even
Published
Sword
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.
Terry Brooks
Book
People
Stress
Mind
Some People
Other
Approach
Severe
See
Some
Put
How
Still
Hand
Up
Same
Hold
Plan
Each
Basic
I might add that you change as a person as you grow older, so you change as a writer, too.
Terry Brooks
You
Change
Older
Too
Add
Writer
Person
Might
Grow
My interests are different now than they were thirty years ago.
Terry Brooks
Thirty
Were
Years
Years Ago
Than
Different
Interests
Now
Anyway, several rewrites later, Del Rey Books did publish my first novel, and it did become the first work of fiction on the New York Times trade paperback bestseller list.
Terry Brooks
Work
First
Become
Publish
Books
Later
Several
Paperback
Bestseller
New
Trade
Times
Did
York
List
New York
Fiction
New York Times
Anyway
Novel
When I was a kid, we had to rely on our imaginations for entertainment.
Terry Brooks
Entertainment
Our
Kid
Rely
Had
Imaginations
I remember one winter, when I was about five or six, I spent three days with another boy, tracking a bobcat that had been sighted in another county fifty miles away, but which I was sure had come into our neighborhood.
Terry Brooks
Winter
Remember
Three
Our
Spent
Neighborhood
About
Had
Days
Come
County
Tracking
Another
Sure
Boy
Been
Five
Six
Which
Fifty
Miles
Away
For a writer, its very attractive to stay in one world for a time.
Terry Brooks
Time
World
Stay
Writer
Attractive
Very
After all, you put a lot into creating a universe and everything that goes with it, and it seems a shame to use it only once.
Terry Brooks
You
Universe
Everything
Once
Seems
Only
Shame
Put
Lot
Goes
After
Creating
Use
We forget that what matters begins with the imagination.
Terry Brooks
Matters
Imagination
Begins
Forget
Writing fantasy lets me imagine a great deal more than, say, writing about alligators, and lets me write about places more distant than Florida, but I can tell you things about Florida and alligators, let you make the connection all on your own.
Terry Brooks
Great
Me
You
Writing
Great Deal
Own
Distant
Say
Tell
About
More
Alligators
Write
Make
Deal
Than
Places
Fantasy
Your
Connection
Lets
Things
Florida
Imagine
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