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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
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
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Sterling
Illinois
Terence Dean Brooks
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Hurt leads to bitterness, bitterness to anger, travel too far that road and the way is lost.
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I cannot imagine life without books any more than I can imagine life without breathing.
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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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