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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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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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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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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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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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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 want to kick-start your imagination and let you discover the places it can take you.
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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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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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If you don't think there is magic in writing, you probably won't write anything magical.
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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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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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Deception is mostly a game we play with ourselves.
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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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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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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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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 I have the means, I have the responsibility to employ them.
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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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It's better to die in pursuit of your dreams than to live a life without hope.
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