Terry Goodkind

I felt like I'd been misplaced in the cosmos and I belonged in Maine.

If God is so powerful, can he create a rock which he cannot lift?

The light of a new day always chases the shadows of the night away, and shows us that the shape of our fears is only the ghost of our own minds.

Even a foolish old woman like me knows that lazy people don't think for themselves; they only think about themselves.

Knowledge is a weapon. I intend to be formidably armed.

Ever since I was really little, I've had characters that were in my mind.

I don't think I could have written what I did any earlier.

After the book took off, I bought a whole new wardrobe.

Celebrating faith over reason is merely a way of denying what is in favor of embracing any whim that strikes your fancy.

The worse you are at thinking, the better you are at drinking.

Her green eyes came unafraid to his. The connection was so intense that it threatened to drain his sense of self. He felt that he had always known her that she had always been a part of him that her needs were his needs.

I hate telling that story to people who've been struggling for years.

The first step to believing something is true is wanting to believe it is true... or being afraid it is.

No one ever goes into battle thinking God is on the other side.

I had to live this long, have the experiences I've had, to create what I do. I knew I wanted to write for years, but I had to be ready so I wouldn't blow it. The move to Maine was the final step.

The worse you are at thinking the better you are at drinking.

There is magic in sincere forgiveness - magic to heal.

Those who have come here to hate should leave now; for in their hate, they only betray themselves.

It allows you to say things that sound very dramatic and get away with it. If you had characters in modern fiction say the same things as they're driving down the street in an Oldsmobile they'd sound ludicrous!

After that, I came back every year. Everyone said, 'Well, when you retire you can move there.' But I said, 'Why should I live my whole life where I don't want to be.'

Mind what people do not only what they say for deeds will betray a lie.

In the end, people believed what they wanted to believe. The truth had very little to do with it.

They look at me and I kind of back up in case they go for my throat.

Love is a passion for life shared with another person. You fall in love with a person who you think is wonderful. It's your deepest appreciation of the value of that individual, and that individual is a reflection of what you value most in life. Love, for sound reasons, can be one of life's greatest rewards.

I've always said fantasy is sort of 'stealth philosophy'.

Pity for the guilty is treason to the innocent.

Sometimes thats all life is... One desperate act after another.

The light of a new day always chases the shadows of the night away and shows us that the shape of our fear is only the ghost of our own minds.

Your life is yours and yours alone. Rise up and live it.

Reality is irrelevant; Perception is everything.

Fantasy allows you bend the world and the situation to more clearly focus on the moral aspects of what's happening. In fantasy you can distill life down to the essence of your story.

Everything is valuable under the right conditions. To a man dying of thirst, water be more precious than gold. To a drowning man, water be of little worth and great trouble.

Ive always said fantasy is sort of stealth philosophy.