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 to remind us of our identity. Without those things, we are adrift.

in English literature in 1966. Brooks then wrote a four-book series titled The Heritage of Shannara. Give me a five hundred page sprawl as an assignment any day.

He writes mainly epic fantasy and has also written two movie novelizations. Terence Dean "Terry" Brooks (born January 8 1944) is an American writer of fantasy fiction. He is one of the biggest-selling living fantasy writers.