American - Writer | January 8, 1944 -
I have learned to do more with less, so you don't see the big books anymore.
Terry Brooks
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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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My interests are different now than they were thirty years ago.
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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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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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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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When I was a kid, we had to rely on our imaginations for entertainment.
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Fantasy is the only canvas large enough for me to paint on.
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For a writer, its very attractive to stay in one world for a time.
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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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Well, I think that as a country, we've drifted away from appreciating the importance of imagination.
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We forget that what matters begins with the imagination.
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