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I think I make better use of language and imagery than when I started out.

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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
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Even after Sword was published, I was still only thinking about the next book, Elfstones.
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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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Well, I think that as a country, we've drifted away from appreciating the importance of imagination.
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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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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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If you don't think there is magic in writing, you probably won't write anything magical.
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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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Why pretend to be something you're not? If you have to be someone, be someone no one else is.
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I haven't made up my mind about doing anymore Landover books.
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We live out our lives as we are meant to live them-with some choice, with some chance, but mostly as a result of the persons we are.
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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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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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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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Herein lies the heart and soul of the nations. Their right to be free men, Their desire to live in peace, Their courage to seek out truth, Herein lies the Sword of Shannara.
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I have learned to do more with less, so you don't see the big books anymore.
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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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You shouldn't believe everything you hear you're young, not stupid.
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If I have the means, I have the responsibility to employ them.
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We forget that what matters begins with the imagination.
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Evil contained is not evil destroyed.
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