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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.
Terry Brooks
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Terry Brooks
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: January 8
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Terence Dean Brooks
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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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Hurt leads to bitterness, bitterness to anger, travel too far that road and the way is lost.
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I think I make better use of language and imagery than when I started out.
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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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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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I cannot imagine life without books any more than I can imagine life without breathing.
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If you do not hear music in your words, you have put too much thought into your writing and not enough heart.
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You shouldn't believe everything you hear you're young, not stupid.
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It's better to die in pursuit of your dreams than to live a life without hope.
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What we have in life that we can count on is who we are and where we come from, she thought absently. For better or worse, that's what we have to sustain us in our endeavors, to buttress us in our darker moments, and to remind us of our identity. Without those things, we are adrift.
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Nothing is lost that we do not first see as lost. Visions born of fear give birth to our failing. Visions born of hope give birth to our success. What is possible lives within us, and it only remains for us to discover it.
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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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Why pretend to be something you're not? If you have to be someone, be someone no one else is.
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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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