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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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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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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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Might have, could have, may have, should have—the haves and have nots reduced to pointless possibilities.
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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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If I have the means, I have the responsibility to employ them.
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When I was a kid, we had to rely on our imaginations for entertainment.
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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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My interests are different now than they were thirty years ago.
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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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I haven't made up my mind about doing anymore Landover books.
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I think I make better use of language and imagery than when I started out.
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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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Hurt leads to bitterness, bitterness to anger, travel too far that road and the way is lost.
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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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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 hear music in your words, you have put too much thought into your writing and not enough heart.
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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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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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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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For a writer, its very attractive to stay in one world for a time.
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