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The real world is horrible.
Careful what you hunt, lest you catch it.
We have lived too long. The great days are past.
Don't take anyone's writing advice too seriously.
The truth doesn't always make a good story, does it?
I got my heart's desire, and there my troubles began.
There is really no end to life's little humiliations.
The process of learning is a nonstop orgy of wonderment.
It's time to live with what we have and mourn what we lost.
Being brave was easy when you would rather die than give up.
I mean, when you're tired of book reviews, you're tired of life.
As a writer I'm more drawn to villains who are just slightly mad.
You didn’t get the quest you wanted, you got the one you could do.
It turns out that there is something that can compete with free: easy.
I think every fantasy reader secretly believes they know how magic works.
I recognize that on paper, you can't really tell that I'm a fan or a nerd.
I feel very conscious of my influences. T.H. White is very important for me.
And I'm not as young as I once was. At my age, I don't have time to be bored.
He who completes a quest does not merely find something. He becomes something.
Being a hero, the man had observed, is largely a matter of knowing one’s cues.
His whole personality was like an elaborate joke that he never stopped telling.
I studied the cello for a long time, from when I was little up through college.
Being a writer can be isolating. It's good to be among readers and booksellers.
It's a terrible thing for a book, when you feel like you're supposed to like it.
It's natural for a child to assume that his or her own childhood is unremarkable.
My book group has one rule: no books for adults. We read young adult fiction only.
People - me included - want to get excited about books. Good books are a good thing.
Everybody wanted to be the hero of their own story. Nobody wanted to be comic relief.
My ultimate goal is to drive people back to the books, when I think of an adaptation.
If there's a single lesson that life teaches us, it's that wishing doesn't make it so.
When it comes to true humility in the face of history, nothing beats complete silence.
She tortured everybody around her, but only because she was more tortured than anyone.
Magic: it was what happened when the mind met the world, and the mind won for a change.
I love playing with the conventions of fantasy, and breaking rules, and crossing lines.
Read everything. If you haven't read everything, you'll never be able to write anything.
You don’t learn about yourself by being alone, you learn about yourself from other people.
I have spent many, many hours reading J.K. Rowling's work. I am a known 'Harry Potter' fan.
We have reached the point where ignorance and neglect are the best we can hope for in a ruler.
I came from an anxious, overly intense East Coast academic family. That was the way of our tribe.
The life I should be living had been mislaid through some clerical error by the cosmic bureaucracy.
It didn’t matter where you were, if you were in a room full of books you were at least halfway home.
There's a special gut-check moment the first time you write a scene in which somebody casts a spell.
Do you promise to hate my parents as much as I do?" "Oh, absolutely," Quentin said. "Maybe even more.
A magician is strong because he feels the pain between what the world is and what he would make of it.
Magic is wild, dangerous stuff. You never realize how useful limitations are until it's much too late.
The line between outside and inside is fuzzier in fantasy. Maybe that's something people are looking for.
It's a great thing when you feel that you recognize yourself, deeply and movingly, in a work of literature.
The problem with growing up is that once you're grown up, the people who aren't grown up aren't fun anymore.
A novel with a bad middle is a bad book. A bad ending is something I've just gotten in the habit of forgiving.
You're saying the gods don't have free will." "The power to make mistakes," Penny said. "Only we have that. Mortals