A world in which elves exist and magic works offers greater opportunities to digress and explore.
Terry BrooksIn 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 BrooksOn 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 BrooksFiction writing is a twenty-four-hou r-a-day occupation. You never leave your work behind. It is always with you, and to some extent, you are always thinking about it. You don't take your work home; your work never leaves home. It lives inside you. It resides and grows and comes alive in your mind.
Terry Brooks