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My interests are different now than they were thirty years ago.
Terry Brooks
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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.
Terry Brooks
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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.
Terry Brooks
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I want to kick-start your imagination and let you discover the places it can take you.
Terry Brooks
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I have learned to do more with less, so you don't see the big books anymore.
Terry Brooks
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Hurt leads to bitterness, bitterness to anger, travel too far that road and the way is lost.
Terry Brooks
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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.
Terry Brooks
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Fantasy is the only canvas large enough for me to paint on.
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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.
Terry Brooks
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For a writer, its very attractive to stay in one world for a time.
Terry Brooks
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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.
Terry Brooks
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A world in which elves exist and magic works offers greater opportunities to digress and explore.
Terry Brooks
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