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My interests are different now than they were thirty years ago.

Terry Brooks

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Terry Brooks
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: January 8
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
Sterling
Illinois
Terence Dean Brooks
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The future is an ever-shifting maze of possibilities until it becomes the present
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I think I make better use of language and imagery than when I started out.
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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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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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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 I have the means, I have the responsibility to employ them.
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Deception is mostly a game we play with ourselves.
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We forget that what matters begins with the imagination.
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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 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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Even after Sword was published, I was still only thinking about the next book, Elfstones.
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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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I have learned to do more with less, so you don't see the big books anymore.
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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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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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