Terry Brooks

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.

Hurt leads to bitterness, bitterness to anger, travel too far that road and the way is lost.

On the other hand, I still approach each book with the same basic plan in mind - to put some people under severe stress and see how they hold up.

I was a bit challenged when I was younger to stay on the right path.

I studied international relations and economics at the University of Virginia. I paid my way by working as a bartender in the summer and at three part-time jobs during the year.

I like villains because there's something so attractive about a committed person - they have a plan, an ideology, no matter how twisted. They're motivated.