I didn't want readers to have to make allowances for what they couldn't see, but to be able to say to themselves that the fabric of the magic detailed was perfectly believable.

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• Terry Brooks:

  Testing of self is a regular part of our own lives, so it seems natural to make it a part of the li

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  We are constantly being put to the test by trying circumstances and difficult people and problems n

• Terry Brooks:

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

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  On the other hand, I still approach each book with the same basic plan in mind - to put some people

• Terry Brooks:

  I think I make better use of language and imagery than when I started out.

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

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

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  My interests are different now than they were thirty years ago.

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  What I want to write about has changed somewhat, and the scope of the storytelling has changed acco

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  Anyway, several rewrites later, Del Rey Books did publish my first novel, and it did become the fir