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We have lived too long. The great days are past.
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Day Great Long Past
Escapism has value, even if I don’t know what its value is, exactly. Maybe it’s just part of some healthy way that we deal with the world.
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Healthy Way World
Maybe there’s a sense that technology isn’t necessarily the answer to a lot of our problems. Fantasy offers readers a less radically alienated world – a world where desires and feelings that normally are trapped inside your mind are made real in the form of magic.
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Feelings Real Technology
The real world is horrible.
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Horrible Real World
My book group has one rule: no books for adults. We read young adult fiction only.
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Adults Book Groups
The process of learning is a nonstop orgy of wonderment.
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Learning Nonstop Process Wonderment
He who completes a quest does not merely find something. He becomes something.
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Complete Merely Quest Something
In a way fighting was just like using magic. You said the words, and they altered the universe. By merely speaking you could create damage and pain, cause tears to fall, drive people away, make yourself feel better, make your life worse.
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Damage Fall Fighting Merely Pain
A novel with a bad middle is a bad book. A bad ending is something I’ve just gotten in the habit of forgiving.
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Book Forgiving Habit
I studied the cello for a long time, from when I was little up through college.
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College Littles Long Study
The truth doesn’t always make a good story, does it?
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Good Make Stories
Josh speculated about the hypothetical contents of an imaginary porn magazine for intelligent trees that would be entitled Enthouse.
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Enthcuse Intelligent Tree
The problem with growing up is that once you’re grown up, the people who aren’t grown up aren’t fun anymore.
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Fun Growing People Up
Don’t take anyone’s writing advice too seriously.
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Advice Seriously Writing
I feel very conscious of my influences. T.H. White is very important for me.
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Important Influence White
People – me included – want to get excited about books. Good books are a good thing.
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Book People Want

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