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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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Terry Brooks
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: January 8
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Terence Dean Brooks
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