It turns out that there is something that can compete with free: easy.
LEV GROSSMANThe paradox of the English country house is that its state of permanent decline, the fact that its heyday is always behind it, is part of the seduction, just as it is part of the seduction of books in general.
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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 came from an anxious, overly intense East Coast academic family. That was the way of our tribe.
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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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I recognize that on paper, you can’t really tell that I’m a fan or a nerd.
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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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Don’t take anyone’s writing advice too seriously.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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People – me included – want to get excited about books. Good books are a good thing.
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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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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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