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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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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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Why pretend to be something you're not? If you have to be someone, be someone no one else is.
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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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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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If I have the means, I have the responsibility to employ them.
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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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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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Might have, could have, may have, should have—the haves and have nots reduced to pointless possibilities.
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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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You shouldn't believe everything you hear you're young, not stupid.
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I haven't made up my mind about doing anymore Landover books.
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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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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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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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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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There is much to admire in Peter Brett's writing, and his concept is brilliant. There's action and suspense all the way.
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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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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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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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