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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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My interests are different now than they were thirty years ago.
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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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You shouldn't believe everything you hear you're young, not stupid.
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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. 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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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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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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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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When I was a kid, we had to rely on our imaginations for entertainment.
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If I have the means, I have the responsibility to employ them.
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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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I might add that you change as a person as you grow older, so you change as a writer, too.
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A world in which elves exist and magic works offers greater opportunities to digress and explore.
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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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Deception is mostly a game we play with ourselves.
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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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The Golden Compass is one of the best fantasy / adventure stories that I have read. This is a book no one should miss.
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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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