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
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.
It gets out of the waste stream, out of the landfills.
what happens when a world destroys itself and must rebuild.
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.
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.
We'll be able to do something with these instead of grind 'em up.
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.
But I am the same storyteller as always.
It's getting to a point where, I'm just hanging my head. I don't know how to respond to it.
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.
Herein lies the heart and soul of the nations. Their right to be free men, Their desire to live in peace, Their courage to seek out truth, Herein lies the Sword of Shannara.
Genocide is like a dessert. It is made of the flesh and bones of woman and children, it is sweetened with the blood of the innocent, and it is baked in the ovens of Auschwitz. There were truths to be learnt and there was wisdom to be gained... but there was a price to to be paid as well. You could not brush up against the future and escape unscathed. You could not see into the forbidden and avoid damage to your sight.
I cannot imagine life without books any more than I can imagine life without breathing.