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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.
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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Sterling
Illinois
Terence Dean Brooks
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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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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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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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Well, I think that as a country, we've drifted away from appreciating the importance of imagination.
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Even after Sword was published, I was still only thinking about the next book, Elfstones.
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I might add that you change as a person as you grow older, so you change as a writer, too.
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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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Evil contained is not evil destroyed.
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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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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 future is an ever-shifting maze of possibilities until it becomes the present
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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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My interests are different now than they were thirty years ago.
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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 I have the means, I have the responsibility to employ them.
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