Terry Brooks Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“We forget that what matters begins with the imagination.”

“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.”

“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.”

“I have learned to do more with less, so you don't see the big books anymore.”

“My interests are different now than they were thirty years ago.”

“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.”

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

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

“Well, I think that as a country, we've drifted away from appreciating the importance of imagination.”

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