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For a writer, its very attractive to stay in one world for a time.

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Terry Brooks
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: January 8
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
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Terence Dean Brooks
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You shouldn't believe everything you hear you're young, not stupid.
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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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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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If you don't think there is magic in writing, you probably won't write anything magical.
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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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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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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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Hurt leads to bitterness, bitterness to anger, travel too far that road and the way is lost.
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Evil contained is not evil destroyed.
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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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I haven't made up my mind about doing anymore Landover books.
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Even after Sword was published, I was still only thinking about the next book, Elfstones.
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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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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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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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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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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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Deception is mostly a game we play with ourselves.
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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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