Lev Grossman Quotes
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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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You're all so obsessed with other worlds, you're so convinced that this one is crap and everywhere else is great, but you've never bothered to…
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One already feels like an anachronism, writing novels in the age of what-ever-this-is-the-age-of, but touring to promote them feels doubly anachronistic. The marketplace is showing…
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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…
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It didn’t matter where you were, if you were in a room full of books you were at least halfway home.
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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…
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Some of the comments on YouTube make you weep for the future of humanity just for the spelling alone, never mind the obscenity and the…
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About as close you can get to the perfect cerebral thriller: searingly smart, ridiculously funny, and fast as hell... I defy anybody to read the…
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In our world no one ever knows what to do, and everyone's just as clueless and full of crap as everyone else, and you have…
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Don't take anyone's writing advice too seriously.
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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.…
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As a teenager in Brooklyn Quentin had often imagined himself engaged in martial heroics, but after this he knew, as a cold immutable fact, that…
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More than fantasy or even science fiction, Ray Bradbury wrote horror, and like so many great horror writers he was himself utterly without fear, of…
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It's natural for a child to assume that his or her own childhood is unremarkable.
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People - me included - want to get excited about books. Good books are a good thing.
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The real world is horrible.
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There's a special gut-check moment the first time you write a scene in which somebody casts a spell.
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The idea of some kind of objectively constant, universal literary value is seductive. It feels real. It feels like a stone cold fact that In…
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You don’t learn about yourself by being alone, you learn about yourself from other people.
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It's very important, at least to me as a writer, that there be some rules on the table when I'm writing. Rules come from genres.…
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