I studied the cello for a long time, from when I was little up through college.
LEV GROSSMANSome 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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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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Don’t take anyone’s writing advice too seriously.
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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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We have lived too long. The great days are past.
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My book group has one rule: no books for adults. We read young adult fiction only.
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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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The truth doesn’t always make a good story, does it?
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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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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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Magic: it was what happened when the mind met the world, and the mind won for a change.
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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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I loved fantasy, but I particularly loved the stories in which somebody got out of where they were and into somewhere better – as in the Chronicles Of Narnia, The Wizard Of Oz, The Phantom Tollbooth, the Dungeons & Dragons cartoon.
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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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Josh speculated about the hypothetical contents of an imaginary porn magazine for intelligent trees that would be entitled Enthouse.
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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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