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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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Believe Book Need Order Stories
I feel very conscious of my influences. T.H. White is very important for me.
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Important Influence White
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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Feelings Real Technology
People – me included – want to get excited about books. Good books are a good thing.
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Book People Want
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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Choices Mistakes Pennies
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
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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Magical Pain Strong World
I think for a long time, I was paralyzed by some of my hopes and ideals for what my life was going to be like. I had this perfect vision of how my life should go, but it seemed – it was – impossible to realize, so I sat around for a long, long time doing almost nothing at all.
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Long Perfect Thinking
Careful what you hunt, lest you catch it.
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Careful Catch Hunts Lest
His whole personality was like an elaborate joke that he never stopped telling.
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Jokes Personality Whole
I 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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Asking Fantasy Way
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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Anticlimactic Done Feelings Something Want
The process of learning is a nonstop orgy of wonderment.
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Learning Nonstop Process Wonderment
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
Don’t take anyone’s writing advice too seriously.
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Advice Seriously Writing
Magic: it was what happened when the mind met the world, and the mind won for a change.
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Magic Mind World

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