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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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Well, I think that as a country, we've drifted away from appreciating the importance of imagination.
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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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Why pretend to be something you're not? If you have to be someone, be someone no one else is.
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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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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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Evil contained is not evil destroyed.
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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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I think I make better use of language and imagery than when I started out.
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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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I have learned to do more with less, so you don't see the big books anymore.
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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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Cats can do whatever they want, whenever they want, without regard to what anyone says or does. Rather like Princesses.
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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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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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If you don't think there is magic in writing, you probably won't write anything magical.
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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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I want to kick-start your imagination and let you discover the places it can take you.
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