My book group has one rule: no books for adults. We read young adult fiction only.
LEV GROSSMANThe 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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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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It turns out that there is something that can compete with free: easy.
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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 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.
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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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His whole personality was like an elaborate joke that he never stopped telling.
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The paradox of the English country house is that its state of permanent decline, the fact that its heyday is always behind it, is part of the seduction, just as it is part of the seduction of books in general.
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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 love playing with the conventions of fantasy, and breaking rules, and crossing lines.
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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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I think for a long time, I was paralyzed by some of my hopes and ideals for what my life was going to be like. I had this perfect vision of how my life should go, but it seemed – it was – impossible to realize, so I sat around for a long, long time doing almost nothing at all.
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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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I studied the cello for a long time, from when I was little up through college.
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He who completes a quest does not merely find something. He becomes something.
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