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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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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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A world in which elves exist and magic works offers greater opportunities to digress and explore.
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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 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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For a writer, its very attractive to stay in one world for a time.
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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 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 do not hear music in your words, you have put too much thought into your writing and not enough heart.
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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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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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You shouldn't believe everything you hear you're young, not stupid.
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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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It's better to die in pursuit of your dreams than to live a life without hope.
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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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I think I make better use of language and imagery than when I started out.
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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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We forget that what matters begins with the imagination.
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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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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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I cannot imagine life without books any more than I can imagine life without breathing.
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