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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.
Terry Brooks
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Terry Brooks
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: January 8
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Science Fiction Writer
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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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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 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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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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You shouldn't believe everything you hear you're young, not stupid.
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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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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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Well, I think that as a country, we've drifted away from appreciating the importance of imagination.
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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 have learned to do more with less, so you don't see the big books anymore.
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Deception is mostly a game we play with ourselves.
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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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I cannot imagine life without books any more than I can imagine life without breathing.
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My interests are different now than they were thirty years ago.
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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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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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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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