My book group has one rule: no books for adults. We read young adult fiction only.
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More Lev Grossman Quotes
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I love playing with the conventions of fantasy, and breaking rules, and crossing lines.
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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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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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His whole personality was like an elaborate joke that he never stopped telling.
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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.
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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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I studied the cello for a long time, from when I was little up through college.
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He who completes a quest does not merely find something. He becomes something.
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A novel with a bad middle is a bad book. A bad ending is something I’ve just gotten in the habit of forgiving.
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It turns out that there is something that can compete with free: easy.
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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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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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We have reached the point where ignorance and neglect are the best we can hope for in a ruler.
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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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Don’t take anyone’s writing advice too seriously.
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