Terry Brooks
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Biography
Terence Dean Brooks is an American writer of fantasy fiction. He writes mainly epic fantasy, and has also written two film novelizations.
"Faith, Princess,"the Prism Cat repeated. "It is a highly underrated weapon against the dark things in this world."
"Hurt leads to bitterness, bitterness to anger, travel too far that road and the way is lost."
"Growing up, I didn't have a lot of toys, and personal entertainment depended on individual ingenuity and imagination - think up a story and go live it for an afternoon."
"Well, I think that as a country, we've drifted away from appreciating the importance of imagination."
"We forget that what matters begins with the imagination."
"I want to kick-start your imagination and let you discover the places it can take you."
"Growing up, I didn't have a lot of toys, and personal entertainment depended on individual ingenuity and imagination - think up a story and go live it for an afternoon."
"Hurt leads to bitterness, bitterness to anger, travel too far that road and the way is lost."
"Nothing is lost that we do not first see as lost. Visions born of fear give birth to our failing.Visions born of hope give birth to our success.What is possible lives within us, and it only remains for us to discover it."
"Fantasy writing must be grounded in both truth and life experience if it is to work. It can be as inventive and creative as the writer can make it, a whirlwind of images and plot twists, but it cannot be built on a foundation of air. The world must be identifiable with our own, must offer us a frame of reference we can recognize.”“Fantasy stories work because the writer has interwoven bits and pieces of reality with imagination to form a personal vision."