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

Terry Brooks

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Terry Brooks
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: January 8
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Terence Dean Brooks
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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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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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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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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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What I want to write about has changed somewhat, and the scope of the storytelling has changed accordingly.
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I cannot imagine life without books any more than I can imagine life without breathing.
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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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If I have the means, I have the responsibility to employ them.
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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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I think I make better use of language and imagery than when I started out.
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You shouldn't believe everything you hear you're young, not stupid.
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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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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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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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I might add that you change as a person as you grow older, so you change as a writer, too.
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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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It's better to die in pursuit of your dreams than to live a life without hope.
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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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