The novel is a highly corrupt medium, after all – in the end the vast majority of them simply aren’t that great, and are destined to be forgotten.
LEV GROSSMANPeople – me included – want to get excited about books. Good books are a good thing.
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The new Web is a very different thing. It’s a tool for bringing together the small contributions of millions of people and making them matter. Silicon Valley consultants call it Web 2.0, as if it were a new version of some old software. But it’s really a revolution.
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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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People – me included – want to get excited about books. Good books are a good thing.
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His whole personality was like an elaborate joke that he never stopped telling.
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It turns out that there is something that can compete with free: easy.
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The process of learning is a nonstop orgy of wonderment.
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Don’t take anyone’s writing advice too seriously.
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Careful what you hunt, lest you catch it.
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The truth doesn’t always make a good story, does it?
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I love playing with the conventions of fantasy, and breaking rules, and crossing lines.
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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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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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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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Escapism has value, even if I don’t know what its value is, exactly. Maybe it’s just part of some healthy way that we deal with the world.
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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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