Every year the literary press praises dozens if not hundreds of novels to the skies, asserting explicitly or … - Lev Grossman

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I would have voted 'no' on the Iraq war and 'yes' to Afghanistan.

Lev Grossman

Every year the literary press praises dozens if not hundreds of novels to the skies, asserting explicitly or implicitly that these books will probably not be suffering water damage in the basements of their authors' houses 20 years from now. But historically, anyway, that's not the way the novelistic ecology works.

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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.

Character, Decide, Door, Inspirational, Looking, Real

Fanfiction is what literature might look like if it were reinvented from scratch after a nuclear apocalypse by a band of brilliant pop-culture junkies trapped in a sealed bunker. They don't do it for money. That's not what it's about. The writers write it and put it up online just for the satisfaction. They're fans, but they're not silent, couchbound consumers of media. The culture talks to them, and they talk back to the culture in its own language.

Writing, Media, Satisfaction, Like, Brilliant

You don’t learn about yourself by being alone, you learn about yourself from other people.

About Yourself, Alone, Learn, People

I have no doubt there are magician psychopaths, and magician serial killers. I doubt Brakebills admissions is very good at screening for those.

Admissions, Brakebills, Doubt, Killers, Screening, Serial Killer

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

Life Lesson, Wish, Lessons, Make, Lesson, Life