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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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Evil contained is not evil destroyed.
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Even after Sword was published, I was still only thinking about the next book, Elfstones.
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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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When I was a kid, we had to rely on our imaginations for entertainment.
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Nothing is lost that we do not first see as lost. Visions born of fear give birth to our failing. Visions born of hope give birth to our success. What is possible lives within us, and it only remains for us to discover it.
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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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I cannot imagine life without books any more than I can imagine life without breathing.
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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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If you don't think there is magic in writing, you probably won't write anything magical.
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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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Well, I think that as a country, we've drifted away from appreciating the importance of imagination.
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We forget that what matters begins with the imagination.
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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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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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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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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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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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For a writer, its very attractive to stay in one world for a time.
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