Top 180 Terry Brooks Quotes (2025 Update)
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151. “What I have told you is not legend; it is the truth. The sword is real; it rests today at Paranor. But most important of all, the Warlock Lord is real. He lives today and the Skull Kingdom is his domain!”

— Terry Brooks

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

— Terry Brooks

153. “He laughed in maddened frenzy, knowing somehow that he was no longer in a world of living creatures, but a world of death where soulless beings wandered in hopeless search of escape from their eternal prison. He stumbled on amidst them, laughing, talking, even singing gaily, his mind no longer a part of his mortal being. All about him, the creatures of the dark world followed in cringing companionship, knowing that the maddened mortal was almost one of them.”

— Terry Brooks

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

— Terry Brooks

155. “Central governments have always been the greatest danger to mankind.”

— Terry Brooks

156. “He understood that letting the magic guide him, that letting it think it was in control when actually it wasn’t, allowed him to be its master.”

— Terry Brooks

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

— Terry Brooks

158. “What they didn’t want to believe, what they tried repeatedly to dismiss, was that whatever good and evil existed in the world came from within themselves and not from some abstract source.”

— Terry Brooks

159. “You spend so much time wondering who you are, don’t you think? You flounder about, searching for your identity, when most of the time it is as plain as the nose on your face. You struggle with questions of purpose and need, and forger that the answers are mostly inside yourselves.” He paused anew. “Cats are not included in that analysis. Cats don’t waste time wondering about such things. Cats just get on with the business of living.”

— Terry Brooks

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

— Terry Brooks

161. “Think about it. Think how it works. We deceive ourselves far more easily than others deceive us. Our false perceptions betray us. Our fears and doubts worm their way into our subconscious and cause us to believe what isn’t necessarily true but becomes true through our own fixation on the possibilities.”

— Terry Brooks

162. “Survive! The word ratcheted through him, an echo that would not be stilled. Endure!”

— Terry Brooks

163. “Morning followed night, as it always does, but Ben awoke questioning the assumption that it necessarily must.”

— Terry Brooks

164. “Shea, particularly, had passed the point where his chief emotion was fear; now he felt only a sense of numbness that dulled his mind into self-imposed surrender, a robot-like acceptance of the fact that he was being led to the proverbial slaughter.”

— Terry Brooks

165. “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

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

— Terry Brooks

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

— Terry Brooks

168. “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

169. “There were times that being a half-blood bothered him, but Flick had stoutly insisted that it was a distinct advantage because it gave him the instincts and character of two races to build upon.”

— Terry Brooks

170. “Use Redline wireless, he had argued. Use Bluetooth Extreme. Use something that wasn’t hardwired. It was more dependable, less subject to malfunctions than the more rudimentary system they were using might invite. So.”

— Terry Brooks

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

— Terry Brooks

172. “Even in lies there are sometimes truths revealed.”

— Terry Brooks

173. “If you’re a real writer, you infuse your characters with truths from your own life. The old saw is, Write What You Know. I think it equally appropriate to add. Write Who You Are. Give your readers little insights into how you think. Share your feelings and beliefs in a way that makes other question their own, thereby requiring them in some small way to reevaluate their lives. Good storytelling compels us to do this.”

— Terry Brooks

174. “Centuries of enlightenment and progress vanished virtually overnight because Men couldn’t find a way to use it wisely and purposefully.”

— Terry Brooks

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

— Terry Brooks

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

— Terry Brooks

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

— Terry Brooks

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

— Terry Brooks

179. “There’s an old saying. If someone doesn’t want to be with you, then you probably don’t belong with them.”

— Terry Brooks

180. “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

181. “He shook his head slowly. “Odd. I thought that hearing the truth about everything that has happened would help somehow. But it doesn’t. It doesn’t help at all.”

— Terry Brooks

182. “We grow as best we can under the circumstances given us. What good does it do to second-guess ourselves years after the fact? Better that we simply try to understand why we are as we are and then better ourselves by learning from that.”

— Terry Brooks

183. “She was talking about herself and Sebec. She was explaining to him how hard it could be to accept the way things sometimes worked out.”

— Terry Brooks

184. “He had no illusions about what that meant; he understood the nature of who he was. He was trained to fight, and he looked forward to testing himself in combat. When he was going into battle, he was alive in a way that was both exciting and satisfying. He was complete.”

— Terry Brooks

185. “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.”

— Terry Brooks

186. “Cats learn early on that very little is accomplished by worrying. Cats also know that things have a way of working out, even when the means are kept hidden from us. Best to deal with things as they arise, and let the future take care of itself.”

— Terry Brooks

187. “I was thinking about choices and how we make them. About how some are so easy and some so hard. I was thinking how we make some because we want to and some because we have to.”

— Terry Brooks

188. “We all struggle with what’s right and wrong, Paxon. That’s the nature of our lives. We have to figure out what we can live with, and hope that what we do to bring it about doesn’t exact a cost that’s too high. We have to decide where to draw the line.”

— Terry Brooks

189. “But much of life didn’t allow for knowing things in advance, and you had to trust to your instincts and common sense.”

— Terry Brooks

190. “He was waiting, and the waiting was painful. Not because he didn’t know how to wait, but because he didn’t know what he was waiting for.”

— Terry Brooks