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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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Terry Brooks
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: January 8
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Science Fiction Writer
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Terence Dean Brooks
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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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A world in which elves exist and magic works offers greater opportunities to digress and explore.
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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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Why pretend to be something you're not? If you have to be someone, be someone no one else is.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Might have, could have, may have, should have—the haves and have nots reduced to pointless possibilities.
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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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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 I was a kid, we had to rely on our imaginations for entertainment.
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Deception is mostly a game we play with ourselves.
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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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You shouldn't believe everything you hear you're young, not stupid.
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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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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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