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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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I cannot imagine life without books any more than I can imagine life without breathing.
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My interests are different now than they were thirty years ago.
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If you do not love what you do, if you are not appropriately grateful for the chance to create something magical each time you sit down at the computer or with a pencil and paper in hand, somewhere along the way your writing will betray you.
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A world in which elves exist and magic works offers greater opportunities to digress and explore.
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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 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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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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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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Why pretend to be something you're not? If you have to be someone, be someone no one else is.
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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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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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I think I make better use of language and imagery than when I started out.
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If I have the means, I have the responsibility to employ them.
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We forget that what matters begins with the imagination.
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We must nurture and love, if life is to have any real meaning. But First we must find a way to survive against the things that prevent us from doing so.
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Evil contained is not evil destroyed.
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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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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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