Terry Brooks Quotes
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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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Deception is mostly a game we play with ourselves.
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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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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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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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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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The future is an ever-shifting maze of possibilities until it becomes the present
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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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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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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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Faith, Princess," the Prism Cat repeated. "It is a highly underrated weapon against the dark things in this world.
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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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A world in which elves exist and magic works offers greater opportunities to digress and explore.
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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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What you write chooses you.
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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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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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Who would you be but who you are?
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I cannot imagine life without books any more than I can imagine life without breathing.
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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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...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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On the other hand, I still approach each book with the same basic plan in mind - to put some people under severe stress and see how they hold up.
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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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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.