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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
Books
Less
Bigs
Book
Anymore
Learned

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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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I want to kick-start your imagination and let you discover the places it can take you.
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When I was a kid, we had to rely on our imaginations for entertainment.
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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 don't think there is magic in writing, you probably won't write anything magical.
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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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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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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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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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We forget that what matters begins with the imagination.
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Even after Sword was published, I was still only thinking about the next book, Elfstones.
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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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Might have, could have, may have, should have—the haves and have nots reduced to pointless possibilities.
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I think I make better use of language and imagery than when I started out.
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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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Hurt leads to bitterness, bitterness to anger, travel too far that road and the way is lost.
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