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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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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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I think I make better use of language and imagery than when I started out.
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Why pretend to be something you're not? If you have to be someone, be someone no one else is.
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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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I might add that you change as a person as you grow older, so you change as a writer, too.
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When I was a kid, we had to rely on our imaginations for entertainment.
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A world in which elves exist and magic works offers greater opportunities to digress and explore.
Terry Brooks
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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Even after Sword was published, I was still only thinking about the next book, Elfstones.
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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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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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The future is an ever-shifting maze of possibilities until it becomes the present
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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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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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My interests are different now than they were thirty years ago.
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Evil contained is not evil destroyed.
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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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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 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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If I have the means, I have the responsibility to employ them.
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