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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.

Lev Grossman

People – me included – want to get excited about books. Good books are a good thing.
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Book People Want
The main advantage of being a reviewer is that you read a lot. A lot of books get sent to you, and you have an amazing vantage point from which to observe what’s going on in contemporary fiction – not only genre stuff, the whole spectrum.
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Book Contemporary Fiction Stuff
The truth doesn’t always make a good story, does it?
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Good Make Stories
I feel very conscious of my influences. T.H. White is very important for me.
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Important Influence White
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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Contribute Different People Silicon Small Together
The real world is horrible.
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Horrible Real World
It turns out that there is something that can compete with free: easy.
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Easy Turnsm Something
He who completes a quest does not merely find something. He becomes something.
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Complete Merely Quest Something
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
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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Healthy Way World
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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Hero Real Sidekicks Villian
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
The process of learning is a nonstop orgy of wonderment.
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Learning Nonstop Process Wonderment
Stop looking for the next secret door that is going to lead you to your real life. Stop waiting. This is it: there’s nothing else.
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Doors Real Secret Stop Waiting
I studied the cello for a long time, from when I was little up through college.
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College Littles Long Study
Don’t take anyone’s writing advice too seriously.
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Advice Seriously Writing

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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