Terry Brooks Quotes About Books

Quotes about: Books

• 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.

  Terry Brooks

  Stress, Book, Writing

• There is poetry in fiction. If you cannot see it and feel it when you write, you need to step back and examine what you are doing wrong. If you have not figured out how to write a simple declarative sentence and make it sing with that poetry, you are not yet ready to write an entire book.

  Terry Brooks

  Book, Writing, Simple

  Terry Brooks (2003). “Sometimes the Magic Works: Lessons from a Writing Life”, p.164, Del Rey

• Lester del Rey told me repeatedly that the first and most important part of writing fiction is just to think about the story. Don't write anything down. Don't try to pull anything together right away. Just dream for a while and see what happens. There isn't any timetable involved, no measuring stick for how long it ought to take. For each book, it is different. But that period of thinking, of reflection, is crucial to how successful your story will turn out to be.

  Terry Brooks

  Dream, Book, Writing

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

  Terry Brooks

  Book, Thinking, Next

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

  Terry Brooks

  Book, Mind, Made

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

  Terry Brooks

  Book, Big Book, Bigs

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

  Terry Brooks

  Book, Adventure, Missing

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

  Terry Brooks

  Book, Healing, Breathing

  Terry Brooks (2003). “Sometimes the Magic Works: Lessons from a Writing Life”, p.46, Del Rey

• Anyway, several rewrites later, Del Rey Books did publish my first novel, and it did become the first work of fiction on the New York Times trade paperback bestseller list.

  Terry Brooks

  New York, Book, Fiction

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