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People - me included - want to get excited about books. Good books are a good thing.
Lev Grossman
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Lev Grossman
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: June 26
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Massachusetts
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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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I don't know if I've ever derived such an immediate sense of calm and well-being from any book as I did from 'Right Ho, Jeeves.' It was like I was Pac-Man and the book was a power-up.
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I read a lot of literary theory when I was in graduate school, especially about novels, and the best book I ever read about endings was Peter Brooks' 'Reading for the Plot. '
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Everybody wanted to be the hero of their own story. Nobody wanted to be comic relief.
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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 went to college at Harvard, then did three years of graduate school at Yale. At both places I studied comparative literature. People find it odd that I went to both Harvard and Yale, and I guess it is odd, but that's just what people did where I grew up.
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I guess I was raised in a household with a lot of reverence for the physical sanctity of books. You didn't destroy books.
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The real world is horrible.
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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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Read everything. If you haven't read everything, you'll never be able to write anything.
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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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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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Do you promise to hate my parents as much as I do? Oh, absolutely, Quentin said. Maybe even more.
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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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Oddly, the meanings of books are defined for me much more by their beginnings and middles than they are by their endings.
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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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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. You're writing in a genre, there are rules, which is great because then you can break the rules. That's when really exciting things happen.
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It's time to live with what we have and mourn what we lost.
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My book group has one rule: no books for adults. We read young adult fiction only.
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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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