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
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.
In practice
In a writing workshop, this quote can be used to inspire students to create their own fantasy worlds.
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.
I cannot imagine life without books any more than I can imagine life without breathing.
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.
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.
If you don't think there is magic in writing, you probably won't write anything magical.
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.
The Bauhaus strives to bring together all creative effort into one whole, to reunify all the disciplines of practical art - sculpture, painting, handicrafts, and crafts - as inseparable components of a new architecture.
To me, a building - if it's beautiful - is the love of one man, he's made it out of his love for space, materials, things like that.
The pain passes, but the beauty remains.
I am going for a level of perfection that is only mine... Most of the pleasure is in getting the last little piece perfect.
Photography is a kind of virtual reality, and it helps if you can create the illusion of being in an interesting world.
New York had all the iridescence of the beginning of the world.
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