Terry Brooks Quotes - Page 3

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• There is much to admire in Peter Brett's writing, and his concept is brilliant. There's action and suspense all the way.

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  Writing, Suspense, Way

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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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  Inspirational, Growing Up, Teenager

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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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  Writing, Important, Needs

  Terry Brooks (2003). “Sometimes the Magic Works: Lessons from a Writing Life”, p.165, Del Rey

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• Even after Sword was published, I was still only thinking about the next book, Elfstones.

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  Book, Thinking, Next

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• I would also argue that there is a good chance that an outline will help you stave off any onslaught of writer's block. Let me advise you right up front that I am not a big believer in writer's block. I think writer's block is God's way of telling you one of two things - that you failed to think your material through sufficiently before you started writing, or that you need a day or two off with your family and friends.

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  Block, Writing, Thinking

  Terry Brooks (2003). “Sometimes the Magic Works: Lessons from a Writing Life”, p.76, Del Rey

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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.

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  Writing, Florida, Connections

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• The future is an ever-shifting maze of possibilities until it becomes the present. The future I have shown you tonight is not yet fixed. But it is more likely to become so with the passing of every day because nothing is being done to turn it aside. If you would change it, do as I have told you.

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  Mazes, Tonight, Done

  Terry Brooks (2000). “The Scions of Shannara”, p.35, Del Rey

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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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  Adventure, Europe, Names

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• If I have the means, I have the responsibility to employ them.

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  Mean, Responsibility, Ifs

  Terry Brooks (2008). “The Heritage of Shannara”, p.176, Del Rey

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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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  Children, Sight, Blood

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• When I was a kid, we had to rely on our imaginations for entertainment.

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  Kids, Imagination, Entertainment

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• For a writer, its very attractive to stay in one world for a time.

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  World, Attractive

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• My interests are different now than they were thirty years ago.

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  Years, Different, Thirty

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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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  Thinking, Dust, Incomplete

  Terry Brooks (2003). “Sometimes the Magic Works: Lessons from a Writing Life”, p.30, Del Rey

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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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  Writing, Thinking, Magic

  Terry Brooks (2003). “Sometimes the Magic Works: Lessons from a Writing Life”, p.165, Del Rey

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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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  Writing, Creating, Use

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• Fiction writing is a twenty-four-hou r-a-day occupation. You never leave your work behind. It is always with you, and to some extent, you are always thinking about it. You don't take your work home; your work never leaves home. It lives inside you. It resides and grows and comes alive in your mind.

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  Home, Writing, Thinking

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• The reader wants to see something happen between pages one and four hundred, and nothing happens if the characters don't change.

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  Character, Four, Want

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• THE NAME OF THE WIND marks the debut of a writer we would all do well to watch. Patrick Rothfuss has real talent, and his tale of Kvothe is deep and intricate and wondrous.

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  Real, Wind, Names

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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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  Attitude, Princess, Cat

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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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  Inspirational, Feelings, Important

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• I have learned to do more with less, so you don't see the big books anymore.

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  Book, Big Book, Bigs

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• You shouldn't believe everything you hear you're young, not stupid.

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  Stupid, Believe, Young

  Terry Brooks (1985). “The wishsong of Shannara”, Del Rey

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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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  Country, Thinking, Imagination

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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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  New York, Book, Fiction

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