I guess I was raised in a household with a lot of reverence for the physical sanctity of books. You didn't destroy books.
Lev GrossmanA big silvery janitor. Penny, this canโt be how the universe works.โ โIn the Order we call it โinverse profundity.โ Weโve observed it in any number of cases. The deeper you go into the cosmic mysteries, the less interesting everything gets.
Lev GrossmanMaybe there's a sense that technology isn't necessarily the answer to a lot of our problems. Fantasy offers readers a less radically alienated world - a world where desires and feelings that normally are trapped inside your mind are made real in the form of magic.
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