A magician is strong because he feels the pain between what the world is and what he would make of it.
LEV GROSSMANThe 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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The problem with growing up is that once you’re grown up, the people who aren’t grown up aren’t fun anymore.
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Some of the comments on YouTube make you weep for the future of humanity just for the spelling alone, never mind the obscenity and the naked hatred.
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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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Magic: it was what happened when the mind met the world, and the mind won for a change.
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The process of learning is a nonstop orgy of wonderment.
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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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We have reached the point where ignorance and neglect are the best we can hope for in a ruler.
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I studied the cello for a long time, from when I was little up through college.
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We have lived too long. The great days are past.
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The real world is horrible.
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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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I recognize that on paper, you can’t really tell that I’m a fan or a nerd.
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My book group has one rule: no books for adults. We read young adult fiction only.
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I feel that’s one of the central questions of fantasy. What did we lose when we entered the 20th and 21st century, and how can we mourn what we lost, and what can we replace it with? We’re still asking those questions in an urgent way.
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I love playing with the conventions of fantasy, and breaking rules, and crossing lines.
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