I love playing with the conventions of fantasy, and breaking rules, and crossing lines.
LEV GROSSMANThe real world is horrible.
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I feel very conscious of my influences. T.H. White is very important for me.
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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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My book group has one rule: no books for adults. We read young adult fiction only.
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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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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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The process of learning is a nonstop orgy of wonderment.
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Do you promise to hate my parents as much as I do?” “Oh, absolutely,” Quentin said. “Maybe even more.
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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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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.
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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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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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I’ve only read three books by Stephen King. When I was 10 I read ‘The Long Walk,’ one of his pseudonymous Bachman books. In my early 20s, while trapped on a family vacation, I read ‘The Dark Half,’ which taught me a word I have never forgotten: psychopomp. Now I have read ’11/22/63.’
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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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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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