Terry Brooks Quotes

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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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  Fall, Magic, World

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• If you do not hear music in your words, you have put too much thought into your writing and not enough heart.

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  Writing, Heart, Too Much

  Terry Brooks (2003). “Sometimes the Magic Works: Lessons from a Writing Life”, p.163, Del Rey

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• We forget that what matters begins with the imagination.

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  What Matters, Imagination, Matter

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• Evil contained is not evil destroyed.

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  Evil, Destroyed

  Terry Brooks (2002). “The Sword of Shannara Trilogy”, p.502, Del Rey

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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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  Writing, Might, Muse

  Terry Brooks (2003). “Sometimes the Magic Works: Lessons from a Writing Life”, p.14, Del Rey

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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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  Believe, Writing, Thinking

  Terry Brooks (2003). “Sometimes the Magic Works: Lessons from a Writing Life”, p.9, Del Rey

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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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  Real, And Love, Way

  Terry Brooks (2008). “The Heritage of Shannara”, p.1797, Del Rey

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• Let me tell you something you haven't learned yet, something you learn only by living awhile. As you get older, you find that life begins to wear you down. Doesn't matter who you are or what you do, it happens. Experience, time, events - they all conspire against you to steal away your energy, to erode your confidence, to make you question things you wouldn't have given a second thought to when you were young. It happens gradually, a chipping away that you don't even notice at first, and then one day it's there. You wake up and you just don't have the fire anymore." He smiled.

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  Fire, One Day, Energy

  Terry Brooks (2000). “The Elf Queen of Shannara”, p.164, Del Rey

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• Hurt leads to bitterness, bitterness to anger, travel too far that road and the way is lost.

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  Travel, Hurt, Anger

  Terry Brooks (2002). “The Sword of Shannara Trilogy”, p.565, Del Rey

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• Why pretend to be something you're not? If you have to be someone, be someone no one else is.

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  Ifs

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• Fantasy is the only canvas large enough for me to paint on.

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  Fantasy, Canvas, Enough

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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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  Choices, Chance, Results

  Terry Brooks (2000). “The Druid of Shannara”, p.88, Ballantine Books

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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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  Dream, Pursuit, Without Hope

  Terry Brooks, R.A. Salvatore, Matthew Stover (2011). “The Prequel Trilogy: Star Wars”, p.293, Del Rey

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• Friendship doesn't have anything to do with shoring up weakness. It has to do with respect and consideration for those you care about. It has to do with wanting to give something back to those you admire.

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  Giving, Weakness, Care

  Terry Brooks (2001). “The Voyage of the Jerle Shannara: Antrax”, p.256, Ballantine Books

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• You spend so much time wondering who you are, don't you think? You flounder about, searching for your identity, when most of the time it is plain as the nose on your face. You struggle with questions of purpose and need, and forget that the answers are found mostly inside yourselves.

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  Struggle, Thinking, Identity

  Terry Brooks (2009). “The Magic Kingdom of Landover”, p.97, Del Rey

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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.

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  Giving, Vision, Firsts

  Terry Brooks (2009). “The Magic Kingdom of Landover Volume 1: Magic Kingdom For Sale SOLD! - The Black Unicorn - Wizard at Large”, p.222, Del Rey

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• Fear is a fire to temper courage and resolve. Use it so.

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  Fire, Use, Temper

  Terry Brooks (2012). “A Knight Of The Word: The Word and the Void: Book Two”, p.124, Hachette UK

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• If you do not love what you do, if you are not appropriately grateful for the chance to create something magical each time you sit down at the computer or with a pencil and paper in hand, somewhere along the way your writing will betray you.

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  Grateful, Writing, Hands

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

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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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  Writing, Looks, Fiction

  Terry Brooks (2003). “Sometimes the Magic Works: Lessons from a Writing Life”, p.24, Del Rey

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• A cat never discusses his business with humans, not even Princesses. A cat never explains and never apologizes. A cat never alibis. You must accept a cat as it is and for what it is and not expect more than the pleasure of its company.

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  Princess, Cat, Apologizing

  Terry Brooks (2009). “A Princess of Landover”, p.135, Del Rey

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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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  Life, Men, Hatred

  Terry Brooks (2012). “Terry Brooks Starter Pack 4-Book Bundle: The Sword of Shannara, Magic Kingdom for Sale: Sold!, Running with the Demon, Armageddon's Children”, p.426, Del Rey

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• Who would you be but who you are?

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  Individualism, Who You Are

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• You can get away with breaking all of the other rules at least once in a while, but you can't get away with breaking this one. Readers will accept almost anything from you if you don't make them feel they have wasted their time and money. Remember, you can bore readers in a lot of different ways. It doesn't necessarily take a dearth of action; too much action can get you the same result. Everything in writing, like in life, requires balance.

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  Writing, Remember You, Remembers You

  Terry Brooks (2003). “Sometimes the Magic Works: Lessons from a Writing Life”, p.116, Del Rey

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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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  Cutting, Weather, Drawing

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• I want to kick-start your imagination and let you discover the places it can take you.

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  Imagination, Want, Kicks

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