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Terry Brooks

"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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"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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"Travel is never a matter of money but of courage."

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"Adventure without risk is Disneyland."

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"Purpose! Purposes are for animals with a hell of a lot more dignity than the human race! Just hop on that strange torpedo and ride it to wherever it's going."

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"An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered."

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"Sail Forth- Steer for the deep waters only. Reckless O soul, exploring. I with thee and thou with me. For we are bound where mariner has not yet dared go. And we will risk the ship, ourselves, and all."

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"Very well, young man, very well," Treville went on, "I know those airs. I came to Paris with four ecus in my pocket, and I'd have fought with anybody who told me I was in no condition to buy the Louvre."

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"Dare to explore the beautiful places of the world."

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"They said it was only a ground shark, but I was not wholly reassured. It is as bad to be eaten by a ground shark as by any other."

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"An egg is always an adventure, it may be different each time."

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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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"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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"I might add that you change as a person as you grow older, so you change as a writer, too."
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"Fantasy is the only canvas large enough for me to paint on."
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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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"When I was a kid, we had to rely on our imaginations for entertainment."
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"What I want to write about has changed somewhat, and the scope of the storytelling has changed accordingly."
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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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"Even after Sword was published, I was still only thinking about the next book, Elfstones."
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