Terry Brooks Quotes
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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 want you, as a reader, to experience what I experience, to let that other world, that imaginary world that I have created, tell you things about the real world.
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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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Deception is mostly a game we play with ourselves.
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You can either give in to what youre feeling, just say ‘okay, enough is enough’ and be done with it, or you can fight it.
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What you write chooses 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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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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I am incomplete without my work. I am so closely bound to it, so much identified by it, that without it I think I would crumble into dust and drift away.
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...You 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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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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The future is an ever-shifting maze of possibilities until it becomes the present
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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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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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A world in which elves exist and magic works offers greater opportunities to digress and explore.
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Lester del Rey told me repeatedly that the first and most important part of writing fiction is just to think about the story. Don't write anything down. Don't try to pull anything together right away. Just dream for a while and see what happens. There isn't any timetable involved, no measuring stick for how long it ought to take. For each book, it is different. But that period of thinking, of reflection, is crucial to how successful your story will turn out to be.
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I haven't made up my mind about doing anymore Landover books.
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Faith, Princess," the Prism Cat repeated. "It is a highly underrated weapon against the dark things in this world.
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Who would you be but who you are?
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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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It's better to die in pursuit of your dreams than to live a life without hope.
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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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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.