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If I have the means, I have the responsibility to employ them.
Terry Brooks
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Terry Brooks
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: January 8
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Terence Dean Brooks
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We must nurture and love, if life is to have any real meaning. But First we must find a way to survive against the things that prevent us from doing so.
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My interests are different now than they were thirty years ago.
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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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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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When I was a kid, we had to rely on our imaginations for entertainment.
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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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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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A world in which elves exist and magic works offers greater opportunities to digress and explore.
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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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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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I might add that you change as a person as you grow older, so you change as a writer, too.
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Might have, could have, may have, should haveāthe haves and have nots reduced to pointless possibilities.
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Evil contained is not evil destroyed.
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A cat never discusses his business with humans, not even Princesses. A cat never explains and never apologizes. A cat never alibis. You must accept a cat as it is and for what it is and not expect more than the pleasure of its company.
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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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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 haven't made up my mind about doing anymore Landover books.
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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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Hurt leads to bitterness, bitterness to anger, travel too far that road and the way is lost.
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