This is for writers yet to be published who think the uphill climb will never end. Keep believing. This is also for published writers grown jaded by the process. Remember how lucky you are.
Terry BrooksRead
Writing fantasy lets me imagine a great deal more than, say, writing about alligators, and lets me write about places more distant than Florida, but I can tell you things about Florida and alligators, let you make the connection all on your own.
Interpretation
What this quote means
Writing fantasy allows for greater imaginative freedom compared to writing about reality.
Terry Brooks emphasizes the unique creative power of fantasy writing in contrast to more grounded subjects. Through fantasy, a writer can explore vast realms of imagination and convey deeper truths about reality, such as life in Florida or the nature of alligators, while allowing readers to draw their own connections and insights from the narratives presented.
Themes
WritingFantasyImaginationCreativityConnection
In practice
Example use cases
In a writing workshop, this quote can be used to inspire students to create their own fantasy worlds.
More from Terry Brooks
All quotes →I cannot imagine life without books any more than I can imagine life without breathing.
Terry BrooksRead
The muse whispers to you when she chooses, and you can't tell her to come back later, because you quickly learn in this business that she might not come back at all.
Terry BrooksRead
After all, you put a lot into creating a universe and everything that goes with it, and it seems a shame to use it only once.
Terry BrooksRead
If you don't think there is magic in writing, you probably won't write anything magical.
Terry BrooksRead
Fiction 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 BrooksRead
Similar quotes
Movies took you right up to the edge but kept you safe.
John UpdikeRead
Music should strike fire from the heart of man, and bring tears from the eyes of woman.
Ludwig Van BeethovenRead
This is a gift that I have, simple, simple; a foolish extravagant spirit full of forms, figures, shapes, objects, ideas, apprehensions, motions, revolutions; these are begot in the ventricle of memory, nourished in the womb of pia mater, and delivered upon the mellowing of occasion.
William ShakespeareRead
Music and love are the only accomplishments of humanity which do not, in an absolute sense, have to be called attempts with unsuitable means.
Georg SimmelRead
Why should the lamp or the house be an art object but not our life?
Michel FoucaultRead
The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic than to love others.
Vincent Van GoghRead