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Terry Brooks

"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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"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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"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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"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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"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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