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 GROSSMANStop 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 GROSSMANThe new Web is a very different thing. It’s a tool for bringing together the small contributions of millions of people and making them matter. Silicon Valley consultants call it Web 2.0, as if it were a new version of some old software. But it’s really a revolution.
LEV GROSSMANThe danger would be going back, or staying still. The only way out was through. The past was ruins, but the present was still in play.
LEV GROSSMANA novel with a bad middle is a bad book. A bad ending is something I’ve just gotten in the habit of forgiving.
LEV GROSSMANMagic: it was what happened when the mind met the world, and the mind won for a change.
LEV GROSSMANMagic is wild, dangerous stuff. You never realize how useful limitations are until it’s much too late.
LEV GROSSMANA magician is strong because he feels the pain between what the world is and what he would make of it.
LEV GROSSMANHis whole personality was like an elaborate joke that he never stopped telling.
LEV GROSSMANSupposedly I’ve got traces of an English accent, though I can’t hear it. I must have inherited it from my mother, who’s English, and then I think it was exacerbated by the fact that I live with an Australian.
LEV GROSSMANMy book group has one rule: no books for adults. We read young adult fiction only.
LEV GROSSMANHe wasn’t surprised. He was used to this anticlimactic feeling, where by the time you’ve done all the work to get something you don’t even want it anymore.
LEV GROSSMANYou’re saying the gods don’t have free will.” “The power to make mistakes,” Penny said. “Only we have that. Mortals
LEV GROSSMANPeople – me included – want to get excited about books. Good books are a good thing.
LEV GROSSMANWe have lived too long. The great days are past.
LEV GROSSMANIt’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
LEV GROSSMANMaybe 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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