Terry Brooks Quotes
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Hurt leads to bitterness, bitterness to anger, travel too far that road and the way is lost.
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Growing up, I didn't have a lot of toys, and personal entertainment depended on individual ingenuity and imagination - think up a story and go…
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Even after Sword was published, I was still only thinking about the next book, Elfstones.
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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 didn't want readers to have to make allowances for what they couldn't see, but to be able to say to themselves that the fabric…
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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…
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Fantasy is the only canvas large enough for me to paint on.
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Genocide is like a dessert. It is made of the flesh and bones of woman and children, it is sweetened with the blood of the…
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We are constantly being put to the test by trying circumstances and difficult people and problems not necessarily of our own making.
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I cannot imagine life without books any more than I can imagine life without breathing.
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When I was a kid, we had to rely on our imaginations for entertainment.
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Testing of self is a regular part of our own lives, so it seems natural to make it a part of the lives of my…
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For a writer, its very attractive to stay in one world for a time.
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A world in which elves exist and magic works offers greater opportunities to digress and explore.
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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…
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My interests are different now than they were thirty years ago.
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We should not be less than what we are.
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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…
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Friendship doesn't have anything to do with shoring up weakness. It has to do with respect and consideration for those you care about. It has…
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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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