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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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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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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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When I was a kid, we had to rely on our imaginations for entertainment.
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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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Deception is mostly a game we play with ourselves.
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Evil contained is not evil destroyed.
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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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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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It's better to die in pursuit of your dreams than to live a life without hope.
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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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If you don't think there is magic in writing, you probably won't write anything magical.
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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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What I want to write about has changed somewhat, and the scope of the storytelling has changed accordingly.
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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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A world in which elves exist and magic works offers greater opportunities to digress and explore.
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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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I cannot imagine life without books any more than I can imagine life without breathing.
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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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