Fantasy writing must be grounded in both truth and life experience if it is to work. It can be as inventive and creative as the writer can make it, a whirlwind of images and plot twists, but it cannot be built on a foundation of air. The world must be identifiable with our own, must offer us a frame of reference we can recognize.”“ Fantasy stories work because the writer has interwoven bits and pieces of reality with imagination to form a personal vision. Terry Brooks
GET IN" he says, getting in on the driver side. I get in with no questions. Okay. This is a bad movie waiting to happen- I'm getting in a car with a guy I just met today who is keeping secrets from me. What the...
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Sara Daniell
Fantasy fiction is essentially about the concept of power great fantasy fiction is about people who find it at great cost or lose it tragically mediocre fantasy fiction is about people who have it and never lose it but simply wield it.
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Stephen King
:I am Topaz, : the unicorn on the hill haughtily announced, :and this is my vale.: : I was not aware unicorns could own vales, : Wareska linked. The unicorn stiffened, and even from this distance, Wareska could see her bright, golden eyes narrow dangerously....
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Ash Gray
Shadowmane sighed as well. :We had better do what this Topaz commands. Unicorns are jerks when they don’t get their way.:
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Ash Gray
I know nothing of magick, ” the naked man said to the raven, “except what you told me.” He laughed sadly. “And I barely remember that. I tend to drift off when you ramble.
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Ash Gray
More Quotes By Terry Brooks
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.
Faith, Princess, " the Prism Cat repeated. "It is a highly underrated weapon against the dark things in this world.
What we have in life that we can count on is who we are and where we come from, she thought absently. For better or worse, that is what we have to sustain us in our endevors, to buttress us in our darker moments, and...
It's better to die in pursuit of your dreams than to live a life without hope.
The Elven people believe that preservation of the land and all that lives and grows upon it, plant and animal alike, is a moral responsibility. They have always held this belief foremost in their conduct as creatures of the earth. In the old world, they...
