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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More Lev Grossman Quotes
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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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Do you promise to hate my parents as much as I do?” “Oh, absolutely,” Quentin said. “Maybe even more.
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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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He who completes a quest does not merely find something. He becomes something.
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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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We have reached the point where ignorance and neglect are the best we can hope for in a ruler.
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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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My book group has one rule: no books for adults. We read young adult fiction only.
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His crush went from exciting to depressing, as if he’d gone from the first blush of infatuation to the terminal nostalgia of a former lover without even the temporary relief of an actual relationship in between.
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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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By now he had learned enough to know that when he was getting annoyed at somebody else, it was usually because there was something that he himself should be doing, and he wasn’t doing it.
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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’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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