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Deception is mostly a game we play with ourselves.

Terry Brooks

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Terry Brooks
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: January 8
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
Sterling
Illinois
Terence Dean Brooks
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Deception
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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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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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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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Well, I think that as a country, we've drifted away from appreciating the importance of imagination.
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I cannot imagine life without books any more than I can imagine life without breathing.
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A world in which elves exist and magic works offers greater opportunities to digress and explore.
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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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You shouldn't believe everything you hear you're young, not stupid.
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The future is an ever-shifting maze of possibilities until it becomes the present
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If I have the means, I have the responsibility to employ them.
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I want to kick-start your imagination and let you discover the places it can take you.
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I think I make better use of language and imagery than when I started out.
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Writing fantasy lets me imagine a great deal more than, say, writing about alligators, and lets me write about places more distant than Florida, but I can tell you things about Florida and alligators, let you make the connection all on your own.
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It's better to die in pursuit of your dreams than to live a life without hope.
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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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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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