"A novel with a bad middle is a……" — Lev Grossman
"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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109 Quotes by Lev Grossman
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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,…
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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…
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The paradox of the English country house is that its state of permanent decline, the fact that its heyday is…
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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…
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Young minds - young brains - need stories and ideas like the ones in those [censored and banned] books in…
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Some of the comments on YouTube make you weep for the future of humanity just for the spelling alone, never…
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About as close you can get to the perfect cerebral thriller: searingly smart, ridiculously funny, and fast as hell... I…
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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…
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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…
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As a teenager in Brooklyn Quentin had often imagined himself engaged in martial heroics, but after this he knew, as…
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More Bad Quotes
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I went through a phase where I thought nostalgia was a bad thing.
— Dario Argento
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Characteristics of a popular politician: a horrible voice, bad breeding, and a vulgar manner.
— Aristophanes
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Bad men are full of repentance.
— Aristotle
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It is the role of good journalism to take on powerful abusers, and when powerful abusers are taken on, there's…
— Julian Assange
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Bad things are not the worst things that can happen to us. Nothing is the worst thing that can happen…
— Richard Bach
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I would not suggest the U.S. should sit down with the North Koreans bilaterally immediately after they've fired missiles -…
— Richard Armitage
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There are some forms of religion that are bad, just as there's bad cooking or bad art or bad sex,…
— Karen Armstrong
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If my forgeries looked as bad as the CBS documents, it would have been 'Catch Me In Two Days'.
— Frank Abagnale
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People that go through what I went through and people going through divorce, it's really a difficulty process; it's heartbreaking…
— David Arquette
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If I were to say, 'God, why me?' about the bad things, then I should have said, 'God, why me?'…
— Arthur Ashe
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From my close observation of writers... they fall into two groups: 1) those who bleed copiously and visibly at any…
— Isaac Asimov
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The problem with leaderless uprisings taking over is that you don't always know what you get at the other end.…
— Chinua Achebe
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