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He who completes a quest does not merely find something. He becomes something.

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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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Magic Mind World
I love playing with the conventions of fantasy, and breaking rules, and crossing lines.
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Breaking Crossing Line Lines Rules
My book group has one rule: no books for adults. We read young adult fiction only.
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Adults Book Groups
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
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
I came from an anxious, overly intense East Coast academic family. That was the way of our tribe.
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East Tribe Way
The real world is horrible.
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Horrible Real World
We have reached the point where ignorance and neglect are the best we can hope for in a ruler.
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Ignorance Neglect Rulers
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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Book Dark Kings Pseudonymous
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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Magical Pain Strong World
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
Don’t take anyone’s writing advice too seriously.
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Advice Seriously Writing
The truth doesn’t always make a good story, does it?
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Good Make Stories
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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Past Play Ruin Stay
I studied the cello for a long time, from when I was little up through college.
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College Littles Long Study

He who completes a quest does not merely find something. He becomes something.

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