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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
Writer
Sterling
Illinois
Terence Dean Brooks
Write
Anything
Writing
Think
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Magical
Magic
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