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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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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 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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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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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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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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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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I cannot imagine life without books any more than I can imagine life without breathing.
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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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Might have, could have, may have, should have—the haves and have nots reduced to pointless possibilities.
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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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I might add that you change as a person as you grow older, so you change as a writer, too.
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The future is an ever-shifting maze of possibilities until it becomes the present
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What kind of world permitted such terrible injustice, where good men were stripped of everything and soulless creatures of malice and hatred survived to glory in their pointless death?
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Even after Sword was published, I was still only thinking about the next book, Elfstones.
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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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I have learned to do more with less, so you don't see the big books anymore.
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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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A cat never discusses his business with humans, not even Princesses. A cat never explains and never apologizes. A cat never alibis. You must accept a cat as it is and for what it is and not expect more than the pleasure of its company.
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