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Lev Grossman Inspirational Quotes (78)

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I'm not one of your knockabout, knuckle-scarred, Internet-controversy-courting book critics. Occasionally I stumble into controversy accidentally, but not because I enjoy it. It's probably just because I'm a weird person.
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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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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 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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You don't want to move toward some utopian literary situation where everybody's free of all conventions. That's ridiculous! Conventions are what you need. You have nothing to break down if you don't have conventions.
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That was the thing about the world: it wasn't that things were harder than you thought they were going to be, it was that they were hard in ways that you didn't expect.
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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.
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It's a great thing when you feel that you recognize yourself, deeply and movingly, in a work of literature.
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For just one second, look at your life and see how perfect it is. 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. It's here, and you'd better decide to enjoy it or you're going to be miserable wherever you go, for the rest of your life, forever.
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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 naked hatred.
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He who completes a quest does not merely find something. He becomes something.
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His whole personality was like an elaborate joke that he never stopped telling.
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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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You don’t learn about yourself by being alone, you learn about yourself from other people.
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Magic: it was what happened when the mind met the world, and the mind won for a change.
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Don't take anyone's writing advice too seriously.
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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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I recognize that on paper, you can't really tell that I'm a fan or a nerd.
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My ultimate goal is to drive people back to the books, when I think of an adaptation.
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It was strange to be naked in front of anybody. It was like that cold water out there in the bay: scary, you didn’t think you could stand it, but then you plunged in and pretty soon you got used to it. There was enough hiding in life. Sometimes you just wanted to show somebody your tits.
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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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It's natural for a child to assume that his or her own childhood is unremarkable.
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Josh speculated about the hypothetical contents of an imaginary porn magazine for intelligent trees that would be entitled Enthouse.
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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 of the seduction, just as it is part of the seduction of books in general.
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