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.
LEV GROSSMANI 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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He who completes a quest does not merely find something. He becomes something.
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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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It turns out that there is something that can compete with free: easy.
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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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Maybe 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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His crush went from exciting to depressing, as if he’d gone from the first blush of infatuation to the terminal nostalgia of a former lover without even the temporary relief of an actual relationship in between.
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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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Do you promise to hate my parents as much as I do?” “Oh, absolutely,” Quentin said. “Maybe even more.
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Young minds – young brains – need stories and ideas like the ones in those [censored and banned] books in order to grow. They need ideas that you disagree with. They need ideas that I disagree with. Or they’ll never be able to figure out what ideas they believe in.
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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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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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Magic is wild, dangerous stuff. You never realize how useful limitations are until it’s much too late.
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Don’t take anyone’s writing advice too seriously.
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I love playing with the conventions of fantasy, and breaking rules, and crossing lines.
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I studied the cello for a long time, from when I was little up through college.
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