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.
LEV GROSSMANI’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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I studied the cello for a long time, from when I was little up through college.
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I feel very conscious of my influences. T.H. White is very important for me.
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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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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 real world is horrible.
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The truth doesn’t always make a good story, does 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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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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Don’t take anyone’s writing advice too seriously.
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The novel is a highly corrupt medium, after all – in the end the vast majority of them simply aren’t that great, and are destined to be forgotten.
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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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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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I came from an anxious, overly intense East Coast academic family. That was the way of our tribe.
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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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It turns out that there is something that can compete with free: easy.
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