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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.

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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Evil contained is not evil destroyed.
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When I was a kid, we had to rely on our imaginations for entertainment.
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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 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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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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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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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 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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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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A world in which elves exist and magic works offers greater opportunities to digress and explore.
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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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For a writer, its very attractive to stay in one world for a time.
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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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My interests are different now than they were thirty years ago.
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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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What I want to write about has changed somewhat, and the scope of the storytelling has changed accordingly.
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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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