I studied the cello for a long time, from when I was little up through college.
LEV GROSSMANThe 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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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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Don’t take anyone’s writing advice too seriously.
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It turns out that there is something that can compete with free: easy.
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Magic: it was what happened when the mind met the world, and the mind won for a change.
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I feel very conscious of my influences. T.H. White is very important for me.
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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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I love playing with the conventions of fantasy, and breaking rules, and crossing lines.
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He wasn’t surprised. He was used to this anticlimactic feeling, where by the time you’ve done all the work to get something you don’t even want it anymore.
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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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I came from an anxious, overly intense East Coast academic family. That was the way of our tribe.
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People – me included – want to get excited about books. Good books are a good thing.
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Careful what you hunt, lest you catch it.
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The truth doesn’t always make a good story, does it?
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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 new Web is a very different thing. It’s a tool for bringing together the small contributions of millions of people and making them matter. Silicon Valley consultants call it Web 2.0, as if it were a new version of some old software. But it’s really a revolution.
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He who completes a quest does not merely find something. He becomes something.
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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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My book group has one rule: no books for adults. We read young adult fiction only.
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We have reached the point where ignorance and neglect are the best we can hope for in a ruler.
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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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Stop looking for the next secret door that is going to lead you to your real life. Stop waiting. This is it: there’s nothing else.
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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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I’ve only read three books by Stephen King. When I was 10 I read ‘The Long Walk,’ one of his pseudonymous Bachman books. In my early 20s, while trapped on a family vacation, I read ‘The Dark Half,’ which taught me a word I have never forgotten: psychopomp. Now I have read ’11/22/63.’
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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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We have lived too long. The great days are past.
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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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