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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
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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Hurt leads to bitterness, bitterness to anger, travel too far that road and the way is lost.
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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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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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I want to kick-start your imagination and let you discover the places it can take you.
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When I was a kid, we had to rely on our imaginations for entertainment.
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For a writer, its very attractive to stay in one world for a time.
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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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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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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 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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Might have, could have, may have, should have—the haves and have nots reduced to pointless possibilities.
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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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Well, I think that as a country, we've drifted away from appreciating the importance of imagination.
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If I have the means, I have the responsibility to employ them.
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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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We forget that what matters begins with the imagination.
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