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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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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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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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It's better to die in pursuit of your dreams than to live a life without hope.
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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. 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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If you don't think there is magic in writing, you probably won't write anything magical.
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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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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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When I was a kid, we had to rely on our imaginations for entertainment.
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For a writer, its very attractive to stay in one world for a time.
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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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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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Well, I think that as a country, we've drifted away from appreciating the importance of imagination.
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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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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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