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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
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Science Fiction Writer
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Sterling
Illinois
Terence Dean Brooks
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Might have, could have, may have, should haveāthe haves and have nots reduced to pointless possibilities.
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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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Hurt leads to bitterness, bitterness to anger, travel too far that road and the way is lost.
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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 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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I might add that you change as a person as you grow older, so you change as a writer, too.
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I think I make better use of language and imagery than when I started out.
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If I have the means, I have the responsibility to employ them.
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Deception is mostly a game we play with ourselves.
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I have learned to do more with less, so you don't see the big books anymore.
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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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We forget that what matters begins with the imagination.
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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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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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I want to kick-start your imagination and let you discover the places it can take you.
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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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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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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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My interests are different now than they were thirty years ago.
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For a writer, its very attractive to stay in one world for a time.
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