Do you promise to hate my parents as much as I do?” “Oh, absolutely,” Quentin said. “Maybe even more.
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More Lev Grossman Quotes
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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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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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I feel very conscious of my influences. T.H. White is very important for me.
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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 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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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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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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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 love playing with the conventions of fantasy, and breaking rules, and crossing lines.
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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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It turns out that there is something that can compete with free: easy.
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It’s an engrossing look at the way the flow of information shapes history-as well as a rare glimpse into the soul of the hardcore geek
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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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Magic: it was what happened when the mind met the world, and the mind won for a change.
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His whole personality was like an elaborate joke that he never stopped telling.
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