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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
Writer
Sterling
Illinois
Terence Dean Brooks
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You shouldn't believe everything you hear you're young, not stupid.
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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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Well, I think that as a country, we've drifted away from appreciating the importance of imagination.
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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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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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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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It's better to die in pursuit of your dreams than to live a life without hope.
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My interests are different now than they were thirty years ago.
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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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After all, you put a lot into creating a universe and everything that goes with it, and it seems a shame to use it only once.
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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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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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For a writer, its very attractive to stay in one world for a time.
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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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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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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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