Terry Brooks Quotes

If life ever stops inspiring us to write, it's time to stop doing what we do.

But if you really love to write and you really love to tell stories and you really love to draw, you just have to keep doing it no matter what anybody says.

I think I'm able to do so much because writing is what I love to do. So, often when I have free time, I choose to write and edit.

I'm doing what I do for the right reasons. I love the music that I make.

It's easy to get discouraged; just keep writing because you love to do it, and you'll keep improving.

I once asked a distinguished artist what place he gave to labor in art. "Labor," he in effect said, "is the beginning, the middle, and the end of art." Turning then to another--"And you," I inquired, "what do you consider as the great force in art?" "Love," he replied. In their two answers I found but one truth.

From the moment I held the box of colors in my hands, I knew this was my life. I threw myself into it like a beast that plunges towards the thing it loves.

The answer to all writing, to any career for that matter, is love.

I think people who are creative are the luckiest people on earth. I know that there are no shortcuts, but you must keep your faith in something Greater than You, and keep doing what you love. Do what you love, and you will find the way to get it out to the world.

The only advice I can give to aspiring writers is don't do it unless you're willing to give your whole life to it. Red wine and garlic also helps.

If you love something - and there are things that I love - you do want more and more and more of it, but that's not the way to produce good work.

I have enough love to last me a lifetime! Thank God I'll never lose my imagination and my passion. That's really what it is. I'm still passionate about what I do.

People ask you all the time, 'Why do you do this? Why don't you quit, man, take your money and go home?' I just do it because I love making music.

If you took love out of the equation, I wouldn't know what else to write about.

If you believe in your art, and you love what you do, that energy will go out, and people will respond.

I love the passion you go through while you're creating.

I love to go to the studio and stay there 10 or 12 hours a day. I love it. What is it? I don't know. It's life.

To write, you need to find what you love.

I enjoy keeping busy, and fortunately for me, there's a large audience out there who are keen to hear me sing. It's their love and affection that keep me going.

I really do love working. There's no day where I don't want to write.

In the deepest hour of the night I confess to myself three things; I would die if I was forbidden to write, forbidden to love, or forbidden to fashion....love each other, and celebrate the art and lifestyle of music.

The unspoken factor is love. The reason I can work so hard at my writing is that it's not work for me.

Love is the main generator of all good writing... Love, passion, compassion, are all welded together.

I never feel so alive as when I'm writing and the work is going well.

...I feel more alive when I'm writing than I do at any other time--except when I'm making love. Two things when you forget time, when nothing exists except the moment--the moment of writing, the moment of love. That perfect concentration is bliss.