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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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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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Evil contained is not evil destroyed.
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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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If I have the means, I have the responsibility to employ them.
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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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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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What I want to write about has changed somewhat, and the scope of the storytelling has changed accordingly.
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We forget that what matters begins with the imagination.
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You shouldn't believe everything you hear you're young, not stupid.
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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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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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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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A world in which elves exist and magic works offers greater opportunities to digress and explore.
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I think I make better use of language and imagery than when I started out.
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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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The Golden Compass is one of the best fantasy / adventure stories that I have read. This is a book no one should miss.
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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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Deception is mostly a game we play with ourselves.
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My interests are different now than they were thirty years ago.
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