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.
LEV GROSSMANHis 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.
More Lev Grossman Quotes
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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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Careful what you hunt, lest you catch it.
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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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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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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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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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His whole personality was like an elaborate joke that he never stopped telling.
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The process of learning is a nonstop orgy of wonderment.
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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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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 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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Don’t take anyone’s writing advice too seriously.
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We have lived too long. The great days are past.
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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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