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The future is an ever-shifting maze of possibilities until it becomes the present
Terry Brooks
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Terry Brooks
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: January 8
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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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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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I might add that you change as a person as you grow older, so you change as a writer, too.
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We forget that what matters begins with the imagination.
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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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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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Evil contained is not evil destroyed.
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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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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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I have learned to do more with less, so you don't see the big books anymore.
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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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Even after Sword was published, I was still only thinking about the next book, Elfstones.
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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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Deception is mostly a game we play with ourselves.
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