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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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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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My interests are different now than they were thirty years ago.
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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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Cats can do whatever they want, whenever they want, without regard to what anyone says or does. Rather like Princesses.
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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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What I want to write about has changed somewhat, and the scope of the storytelling has changed accordingly.
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I cannot imagine life without books any more than I can imagine life without breathing.
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We must nurture and love, if life is to have any real meaning. But First we must find a way to survive against the things that prevent us from doing so.
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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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We forget that what matters begins with the imagination.
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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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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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If you don't think there is magic in writing, you probably won't write anything magical.
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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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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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If I have the means, I have the responsibility to employ them.
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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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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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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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When she cried, he would say, there is nothing wrong with crying. Your feelings tell you who are. They tell what is important. Don't ever be ashamed of them.
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