Don’t take anyone’s writing advice too seriously.
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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It’s an engrossing look at the way the flow of information shapes history-as well as a rare glimpse into the soul of the hardcore geek
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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 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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We have lived too long. The great days are past.
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Careful what you hunt, lest you catch it.
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My book group has one rule: no books for adults. We read young adult fiction only.
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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’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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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.
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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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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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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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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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The truth doesn’t always make a good story, does it?
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