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What I want to write about has changed somewhat, and the scope of the storytelling has changed accordingly.
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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Terence Dean Brooks
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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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I want to kick-start your imagination and let you discover the places it can take you.
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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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If you do not love what you do, if you are not appropriately grateful for the chance to create something magical each time you sit down at the computer or with a pencil and paper in hand, somewhere along the way your writing will betray you.
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A world in which elves exist and magic works offers greater opportunities to digress and explore.
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You shouldn't believe everything you hear you're young, not stupid.
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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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Well, I think that as a country, we've drifted away from appreciating the importance of imagination.
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When I was a kid, we had to rely on our imaginations for entertainment.
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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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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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Hurt leads to bitterness, bitterness to anger, travel too far that road and the way is lost.
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For a writer, its very attractive to stay in one world for a time.
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What kind of world permitted such terrible injustice, where good men were stripped of everything and soulless creatures of malice and hatred survived to glory in their pointless death?
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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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When she cried, he would say, there is nothing wrong with crying. Your feelings tell you who are. They tell what is important. Don't ever be ashamed of them.
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We live out our lives as we are meant to live them-with some choice, with some chance, but mostly as a result of the persons we are.
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I might add that you change as a person as you grow older, so you change as a writer, too.
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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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We must nurture and love, if life is to have any real meaning. But First we must find a way to survive against the things that prevent us from doing so.
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