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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
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
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Sterling
Illinois
Terence Dean Brooks
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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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Hurt leads to bitterness, bitterness to anger, travel too far that road and the way is lost.
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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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What I want to write about has changed somewhat, and the scope of the storytelling has changed accordingly.
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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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Deception is mostly a game we play with ourselves.
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When I was a kid, we had to rely on our imaginations for entertainment.
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I think I make better use of language and imagery than when I started out.
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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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I want to kick-start your imagination and let you discover the places it can take you.
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A world in which elves exist and magic works offers greater opportunities to digress and explore.
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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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For a writer, its very attractive to stay in one world for a time.
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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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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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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 cannot imagine life without books any more than I can imagine life without breathing.
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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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Cats can do whatever they want, whenever they want, without regard to what anyone says or does. Rather like Princesses.
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