Terry Brooks Quotes

...while there was life there was hope.

We should not be less than what we are.

The Golden Compass is one of the best fantasy / adventure stories that I have read. This is a book no one should miss.

But words spoken can never be taken back. They can only be measured for and judged on the strength of their sincerity and need.

Evil contained is not evil destroyed.

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

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

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

All those men had died for some senseless reason, died perhaps without ever knowing exactly what they had fought to accomplish.

Faith, Princess," the Prism Cat repeated. "It is a highly underrated weapon against the dark things in this world.

Either you believed in something or you didn't - you couldn't have it both ways and be honest with yourself.

Let the stillness be, High Lord. Do not disturb it. If you are able, listen to its voice - but let it be.

Might have, could have, may have, should have - the haves and have nots reduced to pointless possibilities.

Who would you be but who you are?

Everything changes with time's passage. Only change itself is constant.

The shadow of greed, attachment is. What you fear to lose, train yourself to release. Let go of fear, and loss cannot harm you.

Human minds are not equipped to face the realities of nonmaterial existence on this sphere. It is too much for any mortal to bear for long." Again

Cats can do whatever they want, whenever they want, without regard to what anyone says or does. Rather like Princesses.

Love supplies a kind of strength that can withstand even death.

Writers need their writing; they need their imaginary worlds in order to find piece in, or make sense of, the real world.

After all, you put a lot into creating a universe and everything that goes with it, and it seems a shame to use it only once.

Life was a myriad of twists and turns that no one could unravel, a path that must be traveled to be understood.

You have to trust in who and what you are. You have to trust in the dream you have been given. You have believed in it until now, haven't you?

What mattered was removing himself from his present existence in an effort to find his future.

Fear is a fire to temper courage and resolve. Use it so.

I want to kick-start your imagination and let you discover the places it can take you.

We build too many walls to be honest with ourselves. -Allanon

If you get the urge, then write about it.

Why pretend to be something you're not? If you have to be someone, be someone no one else is.

A reluctance to acknowledge that there may be wisdom in youth would be foolish.

You shouldn't believe everything you hear you're young, not stupid.

[Y]ou have an inner strength that makes it possible for you to do things other people couldn't even begin to think of doing.

There were always risks in life. Life was meant to be lived like that because if it wasn't, then what was the purpose of living it at all? Measuring

trained army. The

It's better to die in pursuit of your dreams than to live a life without hope.

For a writer, its very attractive to stay in one world for a time.

Failure to act in a timely manner can be fatal.

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.

When a massive failure to preserve the integrity of an ecosystem occured, no one escaped the consequences.

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

She had grown to accept unpleasantness as a part of life rather than to struggle futilely against truths that could not be changed.

Honesty is never wrong.

I might add that you change as a person as you grow older, so you change as a writer, too.

If I have the means, I have the responsibility to employ them.

Things change. Life changes. Nothing stays the same.

We are not always properly equipped to face the difficulties life places in our path.

But when you're dying you don't have much time for common sense.

Deception is mostly a game we play with ourselves.

Sometimes it is better not to speak of what we see in our dreams. Sometimes our dreams belong only to us.

Anyway, that's the past, and what matters is the future. That's how life works, because it's short and precious and kind of doubtful.

I cannot imagine life without books any more than I can imagine life without breathing.

Fantasy is the only canvas large enough for me to paint on.

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

We are the sum of our lives and not simply pieces of them. We are the whole of our time in this world.

We forget that what matters begins with the imagination.

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

And memories, he knew, were not glass treasures to be kept locked within a box. They were bright ribbons to be hung in the wind.

It is in the nature of things to want to believe that what's familiar and comfortable will last forever.

Life just swept you along and never took you back to where you had been.

Love is a beautiful fear.

if you wanted something done, it was never a good idea to rely on others. Others were never as committed to achieving your goals as you were.

Those who committed atrocities always seemed to do so out of a misconceived sense of righteousness and the greater good.

But your responsibilities are sometimes given you without choice, without consent.

There is much to admire in Peter Brett's writing, and his concept is brilliant. There's action and suspense all the way.

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.

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

There was that sense of abandoning the familiar for the unknown that characterizes all journeys made for the first time.

Put the past behind you and the future ahead where they belong and spend your time in the present with the rest of us.

Sometimes we just have to trust that time and fate will bring us back to where we are supposed to be. Sometimes patience and belief are all we have.

If you don't think there is magic in writing, you probably won't write anything magical.

Believe for long enough and it will come to pass. Believe it might be so, and it will be so.

You were guaranteed so little in this life, and so sometimes you took what was offered even though you knew it might end badly.

If you do not hear music in your words, you have put too much thought into your writing and not enough heart.

The future is a map drawn in the sand, and the tide can wash it away in a moment.

The reader wants to see something happen between pages one and four hundred, and nothing happens if the characters don't change.

Life went on, no matter the magnitude of the events that influenced it.

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

I would never leave your side for a moment if it were possible. But it is not. It is not in the nature of life that we can be together in all things.

Again he trailed off into ominous silence.

What you write chooses you.

Your past was your heritage and the foundation on which you were built. You couldn't start over. You could only repair and move on.

We never know what we can be or do until the need is there and we are tested by it.

Even in lies there are sometimes truths revealed.

Do not be so quick to accept as truth what is only conjecture.

Most of all, he needed a challenge - because that was what gave life meaning.

We do not always recognize the thing that comes to destroy us.

but sometimes when you took a chance it was better to hold nothing back and to go all-in. He

a kaleidoscopic, fragmented rush of images that exploded out of memory. They careened into her like an avalanche and swept her away,

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