240 Quotes by Terry Brooks

What I want to write about has changed somewhat, and the scope of the storytelling has changed accordingly.

When I was a kid, we had to rely on our imaginations for entertainment.

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.

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.

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.

what happens when a world destroys itself and must rebuild.

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.

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.

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.