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I cannot imagine life without books any more than I can imagine life without breathing.

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
Books
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Life
Teens
Breathing
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My interests are different now than they were thirty years ago.
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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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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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There is much to admire in Peter Brett's writing, and his concept is brilliant. There's action and suspense all the way.
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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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When I was a kid, we had to rely on our imaginations for entertainment.
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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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Why pretend to be something you're not? If you have to be someone, be someone no one else is.
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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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A world in which elves exist and magic works offers greater opportunities to digress and explore.
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Might have, could have, may have, should have—the haves and have nots reduced to pointless possibilities.
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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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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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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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It's better to die in pursuit of your dreams than to live a life without hope.
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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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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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