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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
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Sterling
Illinois
Terence Dean Brooks
Book
Anymore
Learned
Books
Less
Bigs

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Even after Sword was published, I was still only thinking about the next book, Elfstones.
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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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I haven't made up my mind about doing anymore Landover books.
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