Careful what you hunt, lest you catch it.
LEV GROSSMANThe novel is a highly corrupt medium, after all – in the end the vast majority of them simply aren’t that great, and are destined to be forgotten.
More Lev Grossman Quotes
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The danger would be going back, or staying still. The only way out was through. The past was ruins, but the present was still in play.
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Don’t take anyone’s writing advice too seriously.
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I recognize that on paper, you can’t really tell that I’m a fan or a nerd.
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A magician is strong because he feels the pain between what the world is and what he would make of it.
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It turns out that there is something that can compete with free: easy.
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Young minds – young brains – need stories and ideas like the ones in those [censored and banned] books in order to grow. They need ideas that you disagree with. They need ideas that I disagree with. Or they’ll never be able to figure out what ideas they believe in.
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I studied the cello for a long time, from when I was little up through college.
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The main advantage of being a reviewer is that you read a lot. A lot of books get sent to you, and you have an amazing vantage point from which to observe what’s going on in contemporary fiction – not only genre stuff, the whole spectrum.
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Josh speculated about the hypothetical contents of an imaginary porn magazine for intelligent trees that would be entitled Enthouse.
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The real problem with being around James was that he was always the hero. And what did that make you? Either the sidekick or the villain.
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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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Magic is wild, dangerous stuff. You never realize how useful limitations are until it’s much too late.
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Supposedly I’ve got traces of an English accent, though I can’t hear it. I must have inherited it from my mother, who’s English, and then I think it was exacerbated by the fact that I live with an Australian.
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Do you promise to hate my parents as much as I do?” “Oh, absolutely,” Quentin said. “Maybe even more.
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The paradox of the English country house is that its state of permanent decline, the fact that its heyday is always behind it, is part of the seduction, just as it is part of the seduction of books in general.
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