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Lev Grossman

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And I'm not as young as I once was. At my age, I don't have time to be bored.

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Becoming an author changes your attitude too. Once you see where books come from, and how they're made, they never seem quite as sacred again.

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I'm happy to report that 'The New Press' is still in business to this day. But not thanks to me. I was a really bad publishing intern.

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I've drunk Amazon's free Diet Coke. Nothing makes more sense to me than a company trying to make bookselling into a profitable business. I'm not anti-Amazon, and I'm not pro-publishers either. I'm pro-books.

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When it comes to true humility in the face of history, nothing beats complete silence.

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I loved fantasy, but I particularly loved the stories in which somebody got out of where they were and into somewhere better - as in the 'Chronicles Of Narnia,' 'The Wizard Of Oz,' 'The Phantom Tollbooth,' the 'Dungeons &amp Dragons' cartoon on Saturday morning in the '80s.

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Growing up in the '70s and '80s, science fiction and especially fantasy had such a stigma attached to them. I felt so punished and exiled for being devoted to these things.

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“If there's a single lesson that life teaches us, it's that wishing doesn't make it so.”

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