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I have learned to do more with less, so you don't see the big books anymore.

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
Learned
Books
Less
Bigs
Book
Anymore

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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.
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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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Cats can do whatever they want, whenever they want, without regard to what anyone says or does. Rather like Princesses.
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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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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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Evil contained is not evil destroyed.
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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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It's better to die in pursuit of your dreams than to live a life without hope.
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Deception is mostly a game we play with ourselves.
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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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A world in which elves exist and magic works offers greater opportunities to digress and explore.
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When I was a kid, we had to rely on our imaginations for entertainment.
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Might have, could have, may have, should have—the haves and have nots reduced to pointless possibilities.
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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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Well, I think that as a country, we've drifted away from appreciating the importance of imagination.
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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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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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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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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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