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People – me included – want to get excited about books. Good books are a good thing.

Lev Grossman

I recognize that on paper, you can’t really tell that I’m a fan or a nerd.
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Fans Nerd Paper Trouble
The process of learning is a nonstop orgy of wonderment.
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Learning Nonstop Process Wonderment
I studied the cello for a long time, from when I was little up through college.
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College Littles Long Study
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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Fun Growing People Up
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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Book Forgiving Habit
He who completes a quest does not merely find something. He becomes something.
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Complete Merely Quest Something
The truth doesn’t always make a good story, does it?
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Good Make Stories
The 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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Book Country House
I came from an anxious, overly intense East Coast academic family. That was the way of our tribe.
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East Tribe Way
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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Exacerbated Facts Mother Thinking
My book group has one rule: no books for adults. We read young adult fiction only.
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Adults Book Groups
Magic is wild, dangerous stuff. You never realize how useful limitations are until it’s much too late.
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Late Magic Stuff Too
I love playing with the conventions of fantasy, and breaking rules, and crossing lines.
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Breaking Crossing Line Lines Rules
I feel very conscious of my influences. T.H. White is very important for me.
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Important Influence White
Do you promise to hate my parents as much as I do?” “Oh, absolutely,” Quentin said. “Maybe even more.
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Hate Parent Promise
In a way fighting was just like using magic. You said the words, and they altered the universe. By merely speaking you could create damage and pain, cause tears to fall, drive people away, make yourself feel better, make your life worse.
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Damage Fall Fighting Merely Pain

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