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When I was a kid, we had to rely on our imaginations for entertainment.

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
Imaginations
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Entertainment
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Kids

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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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What I want to write about has changed somewhat, and the scope of the storytelling has changed accordingly.
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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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You shouldn't believe everything you hear you're young, not stupid.
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My interests are different now than they were thirty years ago.
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I cannot imagine life without books any more than I can imagine life without breathing.
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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 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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Might have, could have, may have, should have—the haves and have nots reduced to pointless possibilities.
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The future is an ever-shifting maze of possibilities until it becomes the present. The future I have shown you tonight is not yet fixed. But it is more likely to become so with the passing of every day because nothing is being done to turn it aside. If you would change it, do as I have told you.
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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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If I have the means, I have the responsibility to employ them.
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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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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 haven't made up my mind about doing anymore Landover books.
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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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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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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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