The future is an ever-shifting maze of possibilities until it becomes the present. The future I have shown you tonight is not yet fixed. But it is more likely to become so with the passing of every day because nothing is being done to turn it aside. If you would change it, do as I have told you.

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.