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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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For a writer, its very attractive to stay in one world for a time.
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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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Even after Sword was published, I was still only thinking about the next book, Elfstones.
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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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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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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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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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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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A world in which elves exist and magic works offers greater opportunities to digress and explore.
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I think I make better use of language and imagery than when I started out.
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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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I have learned to do more with less, so you don't see the big books anymore.
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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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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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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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Deception is mostly a game we play with ourselves.
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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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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 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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My interests are different now than they were thirty years ago.
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