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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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Terence Dean Brooks
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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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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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Hurt leads to bitterness, bitterness to anger, travel too far that road and the way is lost.
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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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