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.
LEV GROSSMANJosh speculated about the hypothetical contents of an imaginary porn magazine for intelligent trees that would be entitled Enthouse.
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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We have reached the point where ignorance and neglect are the best we can hope for in a ruler.
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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 came from an anxious, overly intense East Coast academic family. That was the way of our tribe.
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The real world is horrible.
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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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Josh speculated about the hypothetical contents of an imaginary porn magazine for intelligent trees that would be entitled Enthouse.
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Careful what you hunt, lest you catch 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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I recognize that on paper, you can’t really tell that I’m a fan or a nerd.
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I feel very conscious of my influences. T.H. White is very important for me.
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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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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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Don’t take anyone’s writing advice too seriously.
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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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