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Why pretend to be something you're not? If you have to be someone, be someone no one else is.
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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What I want to write about has changed somewhat, and the scope of the storytelling has changed accordingly.
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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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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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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 I have the means, I have the responsibility to employ them.
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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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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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If you don't think there is magic in writing, you probably won't write anything magical.
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The future is an ever-shifting maze of possibilities until it becomes the present
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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 want to kick-start your imagination and let you discover the places it can take you.
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My interests are different now than they were thirty years ago.
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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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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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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 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 might add that you change as a person as you grow older, so you change as a writer, too.
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You shouldn't believe everything you hear you're young, not stupid.
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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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