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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
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
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Sterling
Illinois
Terence Dean Brooks
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A world in which elves exist and magic works offers greater opportunities to digress and explore.
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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 think I make better use of language and imagery than when I started out.
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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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My interests are different now than they were thirty years ago.
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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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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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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 future is an ever-shifting maze of possibilities until it becomes the present
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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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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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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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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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Might have, could have, may have, should have—the haves and have nots reduced to pointless possibilities.
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When I was a kid, we had to rely on our imaginations for entertainment.
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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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Well, I think that as a country, we've drifted away from appreciating the importance of imagination.
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We forget that what matters begins with the imagination.
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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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It's better to die in pursuit of your dreams than to live a life without hope.
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