Quotes from Terry Brooks

but I am old. It is important to accept truths, even when they are inconvenient.

I want you, as a reader, to experience what I experience, to let that other world, that imaginary world that I have created, tell you things about the real world.

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

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

We forget that what matters begins with the imagination.

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

Who would you be but who you are?

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

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.

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

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

When she cried, he would say, "there is nothing wrong with crying. Your feelings tell you who are. They tell what is important. Don't ever be ashamed of them.

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

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.

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

Evil contained is not evil destroyed.

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

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

What you write chooses you.

We must nurture and love, if life is to have any real meaning. But First we must find a way to survive against the things that prevent us from doing so.

Herein lies the heart and soul of the nations. Their right to be free men, Their desire to live in peace, Their courage to seek out truth, Herein lies the Sword of Shannara.

If you are always frightened for yourself you can't act, and then life loses its purpose. You just have to tell yourself that, when you get right down to it, you don't matter all that much.