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I haven't made up my mind about doing anymore Landover books.

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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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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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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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Hurt leads to bitterness, bitterness to anger, travel too far that road and the way is lost.
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A world in which elves exist and magic works offers greater opportunities to digress and explore.
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I think I make better use of language and imagery than when I started out.
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The Golden Compass is one of the best fantasy / adventure stories that I have read. This is a book no one should miss.
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The more complex and overwhelming the threat to a protagonist, the better the opportunity for the author to create a compelling conflict and a dramatic resolution.
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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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Well, I think that as a country, we've drifted away from appreciating the importance of imagination.
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When she cried, he would say, there is nothing wrong with crying. Your feelings tell you who are. They tell what is important. Don't ever be ashamed of them.
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I have learned to do more with less, so you don't see the big books anymore.
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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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Herein lies the heart and soul of the nations. Their right to be free men, Their desire to live in peace, Their courage to seek out truth, Herein lies the Sword of Shannara.
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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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I cannot imagine life without books any more than I can imagine life without breathing.
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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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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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If I have the means, I have the responsibility to employ them.
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