Terry Brooks Quotes
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I haven't made up my mind about doing anymore Landover books.
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In bad weather, I spent hours drawing action figures on paper, coloring them, backing them on cardboard, then cutting them out and creating whole stories around their lives.
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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 innocent, and it is baked in the ovens of Auschwitz. There were truths to be learnt and there was wisdom to be gained... but there was a price to to be paid as well. You could not brush up against the future and escape unscathed. You could not see into the forbidden and avoid damage to your sight.
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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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It's better to die in pursuit of your dreams than to live a life without hope.
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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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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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For a writer, its very attractive to stay in one world for a time.
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What you write chooses you.
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We live out our lives as we are meant to live them-with some choice, with some chance, but mostly as a result of the persons we are.
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If anything in your life is more important than writing - anything at all - you should walk away now while you still can. Forewarned is forearmed. For those who cannot or will not walk away, you need only to remember this. Writing is life. Breathe deeply of it.
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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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There is poetry in fiction. If you cannot see it and feel it when you write, you need to step back and examine what you are doing wrong. If you have not figured out how to write a simple declarative sentence and make it sing with that poetry, you are not yet ready to write an entire book.
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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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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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Fear is a fire to temper courage and resolve. Use it so.
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If I have the means, I have the responsibility to employ them.
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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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My interests are different now than they were thirty years ago.
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Even after Sword was published, I was still only thinking about the next book, Elfstones.
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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 live it for an afternoon.
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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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I might add that you change as a person as you grow older, so you change as a writer, too.
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Hurt leads to bitterness, bitterness to anger, travel too far that road and the way is lost.