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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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If you don't think there is magic in writing, you probably won't write anything magical.
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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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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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I have learned to do more with less, so you don't see the big books anymore.
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Cats can do whatever they want, whenever they want, without regard to what anyone says or does. Rather like Princesses.
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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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I think I make better use of language and imagery than when I started out.
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The future is an ever-shifting maze of possibilities until it becomes the present
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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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Even after Sword was published, I was still only thinking about the next book, Elfstones.
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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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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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It's better to die in pursuit of your dreams than to live a life without hope.
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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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Evil contained is not evil destroyed.
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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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What I want to write about has changed somewhat, and the scope of the storytelling has changed accordingly.
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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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