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Terry Brooks Quotes

American - Writer | January 8, 1944 -

We are constantly being put to the test by trying circumstances and difficult people and problems not necessarily of our own making.

People Problems Trying Circumstances

In bad weather, I spent hours drawing action figures on paper, coloring them, backing them on cardboard, then cutting them out and creating whole stories around their lives.

Weather Action Drawing Bad Creating

A world in which elves exist and magic works offers greater opportunities to digress and explore.

World Opportunities Magic Explore

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.

Adventure Story Name Breakthrough

Hurt leads to bitterness, bitterness to anger, travel too far that road and the way is lost.

Travel Anger Road Hurt Bitterness

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.

Winter Remember Three Boy Fifty

I haven't made up my mind about doing anymore Landover books.

Mind Doing Up Books Made About

I didn't want readers to have to make allowances for what they couldn't see, but to be able to say to themselves that the fabric of the magic detailed was perfectly believable.

Magic Say Want See Fabric Able

Testing of self is a regular part of our own lives, so it seems natural to make it a part of the lives of my characters, as well, albeit on a much different level.

Self Testing Own Natural Level Well

Even after Sword was published, I was still only thinking about the next book, Elfstones.

Book Thinking Sword Next Only Still

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.

Stress People Mind Book Plan Hand

I think I make better use of language and imagery than when I started out.

Think Language Better Out Started

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