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Even after Sword was published, I was still only thinking about the next book, Elfstones.
Terry Brooks
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Terry Brooks
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: January 8
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Science Fiction Writer
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Sterling
Illinois
Terence Dean Brooks
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We forget that what matters begins with the imagination.
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Cats can do whatever they want, whenever they want, without regard to what anyone says or does. Rather like Princesses.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Herein lies the heart and soul of the nations. Their right to be free men, Their desire to live in peace, Their courage to seek out truth, Herein lies the Sword of Shannara.
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When I was a kid, we had to rely on our imaginations for entertainment.
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She has her gown nicely in place tonight, doesn't she? Black velvet and sparkles, not a thread left hanging. Clever girl, this city. Even the sky is her friend.
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The more complex and overwhelming the threat to a protagonist, the better the opportunity for the author to create a compelling conflict and a dramatic resolution.
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A world in which elves exist and magic works offers greater opportunities to digress and explore.
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I have learned to do more with less, so you don't see the big books anymore.
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Anyway, several rewrites later, Del Rey Books did publish my first novel, and it did become the first work of fiction on the New York Times trade paperback bestseller list.
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A cat never discusses his business with humans, not even Princesses. A cat never explains and never apologizes. A cat never alibis. You must accept a cat as it is and for what it is and not expect more than the pleasure of its company.
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Why pretend to be something you're not? If you have to be someone, be someone no one else is.
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My breakthrough as a reader was when I discovered the European adventure story writers - Alexander Dumas, Robert Louis Stevenson, Sir Walter Scott, to name a few.
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For a writer, its very attractive to stay in one world for a time.
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The Golden Compass is one of the best fantasy / adventure stories that I have read. This is a book no one should miss.
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I want to kick-start your imagination and let you discover the places it can take you.
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If you do not hear music in your words, you have put too much thought into your writing and not enough heart.
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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.
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