People – me included – want to get excited about books. Good books are a good thing.
LEV GROSSMANThe truth doesn’t always make a good story, does it?
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The truth doesn’t always make a good story, does it?
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Don’t take anyone’s writing advice too seriously.
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It turns out that there is something that can compete with free: easy.
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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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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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Supposedly 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.
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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 love playing with the conventions of fantasy, and breaking rules, and crossing lines.
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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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The 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.
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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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I feel that’s one of the central questions of fantasy. What did we lose when we entered the 20th and 21st century, and how can we mourn what we lost, and what can we replace it with? We’re still asking those questions in an urgent way.
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In a way fighting was just like using magic. You said the words, and they altered the universe. By merely speaking you could create damage and pain, cause tears to fall, drive people away, make yourself feel better, make your life worse.
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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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He who completes a quest does not merely find something. He becomes something.
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