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If you don't think there is magic in writing, you probably won't write anything magical.
Terry Brooks
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Terry Brooks
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: January 8
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Science Fiction Writer
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Terence Dean Brooks
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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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We forget that what matters begins with the imagination.
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You shouldn't believe everything you hear you're young, not stupid.
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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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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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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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The future is an ever-shifting maze of possibilities until it becomes the present
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When I was a kid, we had to rely on our imaginations for entertainment.
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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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Even after Sword was published, I was still only thinking about the next book, Elfstones.
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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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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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I haven't made up my mind about doing anymore Landover books.
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If I have the means, I have the responsibility to employ them.
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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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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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I think I make better use of language and imagery than when I started out.
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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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