Terry Brooks Quotes

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Terry Brooks

Profession : Writer

Birth : January 8, 1944

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.

Terry Brooks

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.

Terry Brooks

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

Terry Brooks

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

Terry Brooks

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.

Terry Brooks

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.

Terry Brooks