Terry Brooks Quotes
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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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Deception is mostly a game we play with ourselves.
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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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Hurt leads to bitterness, bitterness to anger, travel too far that road and the way is lost.
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The unicorns were the most recognizable magic the fairies possessed, and they sent them to those worlds where belief in the magic was in danger of falling altogether. After all there has to be some belief in magic- however small- for any world to survive.
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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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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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What you write chooses you.
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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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The muse whispers to you when she chooses, and you can't tell her to come back later, because you quickly learn in this business that she might not come back at all.
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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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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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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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Let me tell you something you haven't learned yet, something you learn only by living awhile. As you get older, you find that life begins to wear you down. Doesn't matter who you are or what you do, it happens. Experience, time, events - they all conspire against you to steal away your energy, to erode your confidence, to make you question things you wouldn't have given a second thought to when you were young. It happens gradually, a chipping away that you don't even notice at first, and then one day it's there. You wake up and you just don't have the fire anymore." He smiled.
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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 characters, as well, albeit on a much different level.
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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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If I have the means, I have the responsibility to employ them.
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Fantasy is the only canvas large enough for me to paint on.
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You can get away with breaking all of the other rules at least once in a while, but you can't get away with breaking this one. Readers will accept almost anything from you if you don't make them feel they have wasted their time and money. Remember, you can bore readers in a lot of different ways. It doesn't necessarily take a dearth of action; too much action can get you the same result. Everything in writing, like in life, requires balance.
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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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A world in which elves exist and magic works offers greater opportunities to digress and explore.
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...[Y]ou have an inner strength that makes it possible for you to do things other people couldn't even begin to think of doing.
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Fiction writers are strange beasts. They are, like all writers, observers first and foremost. Everything that happens to and around them is potential material for a story, and they look at it that way.
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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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Might have, could have, may have, should have—the haves and have nots reduced to pointless possibilities.
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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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I cannot imagine life without books any more than I can imagine life without breathing.
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I haven't made up my mind about doing anymore Landover books.
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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 are always frightened for yourself you can't act, and then life loses its purpose. You just have to tell yourself that, when you get right down to it, you don't matter all that much.
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