Don’t take anyone’s writing advice too seriously.
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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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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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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My book group has one rule: no books for adults. We read young adult fiction only.
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He 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.
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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.
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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 love playing with the conventions of fantasy, and breaking rules, and crossing lines.
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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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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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I recognize that on paper, you can’t really tell that I’m a fan or a nerd.
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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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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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We have reached the point where ignorance and neglect are the best we can hope for in a ruler.
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