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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
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
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Sterling
Illinois
Terence Dean Brooks
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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's what we have to sustain us in our endeavors, to buttress us in our darker moments, and to remind us of our identity. Without those things, we are adrift.
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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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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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My interests are different now than they were thirty years ago.
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I think I make better use of language and imagery than when I started out.
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Nothing is lost that we do not first see as lost. Visions born of fear give birth to our failing. Visions born of hope give birth to our success. What is possible lives within us, and it only remains for us to discover it.
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Evil contained is not evil destroyed.
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If I have the means, I have the responsibility to employ them.
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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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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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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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It's better to die in pursuit of your dreams than to live a life without hope.
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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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A world in which elves exist and magic works offers greater opportunities to digress and explore.
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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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I have learned to do more with less, so you don't see the big books anymore.
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Deception is mostly a game we play with ourselves.
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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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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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There is much to admire in Peter Brett's writing, and his concept is brilliant. There's action and suspense all the way.
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