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.
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.
It gets out of the waste stream, out of the landfills.
If you live in the right county and get the right worker, you're going to win.
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.
If you do not hear music in your words, you have put too much thought into your writing and not enough heart.
There is much to admire in Peter Brett's writing, and his concept is brilliant. There's action and suspense all the way.
Fiction writers are strange beasts. They are, like all writers, observers first and foremost. Everything that happens to and around them is potential material for a story, and they look at it that way.