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
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.
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.
What is interesting to me is how the characters respond, how they change and grow by facing what often seem overwhelming difficulties.
what happens when a world destroys itself and must rebuild.
The muse whispers to you when she chooses, and you can't tell her to come back later, because you quickly learn in this business that she might not come back at all.
We are constantly being put to the test by trying circumstances and difficult people and problems not necessarily of our own making.
We forget that what matters begins with the imagination.
We live out our lives as we are meant to live them-with some choice, with some chance, but mostly as a result of the persons we are.
Fantasy is the only canvas large enough for me to paint on.
I want to kick-start your imagination and let you discover the places it can take you.
A cat never discusses his business with humans, not even Princesses. A cat never explains and never apologizes. A cat never alibis. You must accept a cat as it is and for what it is and not expect more than the pleasure of its company.
The future is an ever-shifting maze of possibilities until it becomes the present. The future I have shown you tonight is not yet fixed. But it is more likely to become so with the passing of every day because nothing is being done to turn it aside. If you would change it, do as I have told you.
My breakthrough as a reader was when I discovered the European adventure story writers - Alexander Dumas, Robert Louis Stevenson, Sir Walter Scott, to name a few.