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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. (Terry Brooks)
I cannot imagine life without books any more than I can imagine life without breathing. View quote
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Deception is mostly a game we play with ourselves. View quote
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We are doomed to repeat the mistakes of the past, and no amount of education gleaned from our propensity for self-destruction and misguided thinking ever teaches us anything. Not anything that we remember for more than a generation or two. View quote
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A world in which elves exist and magic works offers greater opportunities to digress and explore. View quote
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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. View quote
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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 of the magic detailed was perfectly believable. View quote
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Writing fantasy lets me imagine a great deal more than, say, writing about alligators, and lets me write about places more distant than Florida, but I can tell you things about Florida and alligators, let you make the connection all on your own. View quote
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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. View quote
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What I want to write about has changed somewhat, and the scope of the storytelling has changed accordingly. View quote
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We forget that what matters begins with the imagination. (Terry Brooks)
My interests are different now than they were thirty years ago. View quote
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Even after Sword was published, I was still only thinking about the next book, Elfstones. View quote
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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. View quote
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I think I make better use of language and imagery than when I started out. View quote
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I have learned to do more with less, so you don't see the big books anymore. View quote
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I might add that you change as a person as you grow older, so you change as a writer, too. View quote
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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. View quote
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When I was a kid, we had to rely on our imaginations for entertainment. View quote
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I remember one winter, when I was about five or six, I spent three days with another boy, tracking a bobcat that had been sighted in another county fifty miles away, but which I was sure had come into our neighborhood. View quote
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For a writer, its very attractive to stay in one world for a time. (Terry Brooks)
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. View quote
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I want to kick-start your imagination and let you discover the places it can take you. View quote
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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. View quote
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I haven't made up my mind about doing anymore Landover books. View quote
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