Magic is wild, dangerous stuff. You never realize how useful limitations are until it’s much too late.
LEV GROSSMANI came from an anxious, overly intense East Coast academic family. That was the way of our tribe.
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We have lived too long. The great days are past.
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I studied the cello for a long time, from when I was little up through college.
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I loved fantasy, but I particularly loved the stories in which somebody got out of where they were and into somewhere better – as in the Chronicles Of Narnia, The Wizard Of Oz, The Phantom Tollbooth, the Dungeons & Dragons cartoon.
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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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Don’t take anyone’s writing advice too seriously.
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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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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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The 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.
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I think for a long time, I was paralyzed by some of my hopes and ideals for what my life was going to be like. I had this perfect vision of how my life should go, but it seemed – it was – impossible to realize, so I sat around for a long, long time doing almost nothing at all.
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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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I love playing with the conventions of fantasy, and breaking rules, and crossing lines.
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My book group has one rule: no books for adults. We read young adult fiction only.
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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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You’re all so obsessed with other worlds, you’re so convinced that this one is crap and everywhere else is great, but you’ve never bothered to figure out what’s going on here!
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It turns out that there is something that can compete with free: easy.
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