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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
Anymore
Learned
Books
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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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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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I cannot imagine life without books any more than I can imagine life without breathing.
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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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Even after Sword was published, I was still only thinking about the next book, Elfstones.
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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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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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Hurt leads to bitterness, bitterness to anger, travel too far that road and the way is lost.
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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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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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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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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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I might add that you change as a person as you grow older, so you change as a writer, too.
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Deception is mostly a game we play with ourselves.
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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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Cats can do whatever they want, whenever they want, without regard to what anyone says or does. Rather like Princesses.
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A world in which elves exist and magic works offers greater opportunities to digress and explore.
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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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My interests are different now than they were thirty years ago.
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