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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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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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Might have, could have, may have, should have—the haves and have nots reduced to pointless possibilities.
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Deception is mostly a game we play with ourselves.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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We forget that what matters begins with the imagination.
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Even after Sword was published, I was still only thinking about the next book, Elfstones.
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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 haven't made up my mind about doing anymore Landover books.
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I cannot imagine life without books any more than I can imagine life without breathing.
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When she cried, he would say, there is nothing wrong with crying. Your feelings tell you who are. They tell what is important. Don't ever be ashamed of them.
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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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