I loved fantasy, but I particularly loved the stories in which somebody got out of where they were and into somewhere better – as in the Chronicles Of Narnia, The Wizard Of Oz, The Phantom Tollbooth, the Dungeons & Dragons cartoon.
LEV GROSSMANI came from an anxious, overly intense East Coast academic family. That was the way of our tribe.
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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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People – me included – want to get excited about books. Good books are a good thing.
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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 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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Magic is wild, dangerous stuff. You never realize how useful limitations are until it’s much too late.
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A big silvery janitor. Penny, this can’t be how the universe works.” “In the Order we call it ‘inverse profundity.’ We’ve observed it in any number of cases. The deeper you go into the cosmic mysteries, the less interesting everything gets.
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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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I feel very conscious of my influences. T.H. White is very important for me.
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He who completes a quest does not merely find something. He becomes something.
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The real world is horrible.
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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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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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The process of learning is a nonstop orgy of wonderment.
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Do you promise to hate my parents as much as I do?” “Oh, absolutely,” Quentin said. “Maybe even more.
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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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