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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.
Terry Brooks
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Terry Brooks
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: January 8
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Terence Dean Brooks
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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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Hurt leads to bitterness, bitterness to anger, travel too far that road and the way is lost.
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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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Deception is mostly a game we play with ourselves.
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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 I have the means, I have the responsibility to employ them.
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My interests are different now than they were thirty years ago.
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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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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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Even after Sword was published, I was still only thinking about the next book, Elfstones.
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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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We forget that what matters begins with the imagination.
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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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When I was a kid, we had to rely on our imaginations for entertainment.
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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 don't think there is magic in writing, you probably won't write anything magical.
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This is for writers yet to be published who think the uphill climb will never end. Keep believing. This is also for published writers grown jaded by the process. Remember how lucky you are.
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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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Evil contained is not evil destroyed.
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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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