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.
LEV GROSSMANYoung 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.
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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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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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’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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The truth doesn’t always make a good story, does it?
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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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People – me included – want to get excited about books. Good books are a good thing.
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A big silvery janitor. Penny, this can’t be how the universe works.” “In the Order we call it ‘inverse profundity.’ We’ve observed it in any number of cases. The deeper you go into the cosmic mysteries, the less interesting everything gets.
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I studied the cello for a long time, from when I was little up through college.
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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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The process of learning is a nonstop orgy of wonderment.
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Careful what you hunt, lest you catch it.
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You’re saying the gods don’t have free will.” “The power to make mistakes,” Penny said. “Only we have that. Mortals
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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 came from an anxious, overly intense East Coast academic family. That was the way of our tribe.
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