It's a great thing when you feel that you recognize yourself, deeply and movingly, in a work of literature. — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
A novel with a bad middle is a bad book. A bad ending is something I've just gotten in the habit of… — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
People - me included - want to get excited about books. Good books are a good thing. — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
It's a terrible thing for a book, when you feel like you're supposed to like it. — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
My book group has one rule: no books for adults. We read young adult fiction only. — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
I guess I was raised in a household with a lot of reverence for the physical sanctity of books. You didn't destroy… — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
Oddly, the meanings of books are defined for me much more by their beginnings and middles than they are by their endings. — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
It didn’t matter where you were, if you were in a room full of books you were at least halfway home. — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
I started thinking about the endings of novels not because I think endings are so important, but because I think they're actually… — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
Becoming an author changes your attitude too. Once you see where books come from, and how they're made, they never seem quite… — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
How often have I met and disliked writers whose books I love; and conversely, hated the books and then wound up liking… — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
The novel is a highly corrupt medium, after all - in the end the vast majority of them simply aren't that great,… — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
When I left college I thought - based on a staggeringly inadequate understanding of how the world worked - that I might… — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
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.… — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
“She was too tired to feel anything more, she wanted a book to do to her what books did: take away the… — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
I love rare books. Not that I own a lot of them, mind you. You couldn't quite call me a rare-book collector.… — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
Which is the healthier kind of literary diversity: an un-gate-kept self-published book world, run substantially through Amazon? Or our current book world,… — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
One already feels like an anachronism, writing novels in the age of what-ever-this-is-the-age-of, but touring to promote them feels doubly anachronistic. The… — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
“I read obsessively when I'm writing. I think there are two kinds of fiction writers, those who read incessantly while they write… — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
I've only read three books by Stephen King. When I was 10 I read 'The Long Walk,' one of his pseudonymous Bachman… — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
Young minds - young brains - need stories and ideas like the ones in those [censored and banned] books in order to… — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
“The librarian thought the problem was just that the right books weren’t breeding with each other and proposed a forced mating program.… — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
“When he graduated he’d thought life was going to be like a novel, starring him on his own personal hero’s journey, and… — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
I always hated those fantasy books where, at the end, all the kids had to go home. At the end of a… — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
“...In books there's always somebody standing by ready to say hey, the world's in danger, evil's on the rise, but if you're… — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
“Up until relatively recently, creating original characters from scratch wasn't a major part of an author's job description. When Virgil wrote The… — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
“To make matters worse, some of the books had actually become migratory. In the nineteenth century Brakebills had appointed a librarian with… — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
“There are any number of reasons to want novels to survive. The way [Jonathan] Franzen thinks about it is that books can… — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
Being a writer can be isolating. It's good to be among readers and booksellers. — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
Read everything. If you haven't read everything, you'll never be able to write anything. — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
“All of human literature could just be a user’s guide to the multiverse!” — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
I think every fantasy reader secretly believes they know how magic works. — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
“Personally, I think the "Potter" books have too many adverbs and not enough sex.” — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
“That was one thing about books: once you read them they couldn’t be unread.” — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
My ultimate goal is to drive people back to the books, when I think of an adaptation. — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
Book tours are excellent things, and one is lucky to get to go on one, but they have a way of leeching… — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
Hating a book is not unlike hating a person; in fact it's tempting to just go ahead and hate the author personally,… — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
I read a lot of literary theory when I was in graduate school, especially about novels, and the best book I ever… — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
I got my first whiff of what big-time adult literature was all about when I was in 8th grade. I got it… — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
We're wired to expect the world to be brighter and more meaningful and more obviously interesting than it actually is. And when we realize… — Lev Grossman Copy Share
“He was going to sign the papers and he was going to be a motherfucking magician.” — Lev Grossman Copy Share
“Being brave was easy when you would rather die than give up. Fatigue meant nothing when you actually wanted to suffer.” — Lev Grossman Copy Share
“He wasn't in a safe little story where wrongs were automatically righted; he was still in the real world, where bad bitter things happened… — Lev Grossman Copy Share
I love rare books. Not that I own a lot of them, mind you. You couldn't quite call me a rare-book collector. But I… — Lev Grossman Copy Share
By now he had learned enough to know that when he was getting annoyed at somebody else, it was usually because there was something… — Lev Grossman Copy Share
About as close you can get to the perfect cerebral thriller: searingly smart, ridiculously funny, and fast as hell... I defy anybody to read… — Lev Grossman Copy Share
“It's true," Eliot said. "Statistically, historically, and however else you want to look at it, you are almost never right. A monkey making life… — Lev Grossman Copy Share
“God, I hope we don’t have to use that,” was all he said out loud. “Oh, come on, Quentina. We’re not looking for trouble.… — Lev Grossman Copy Share
My specialty as a collector is books that almost have value. When I love a book, I don't buy the first edition, because those… — Lev Grossman Copy Share
I used to write in a local coffee shop, but there was another guy, another writer, who kept sitting in my favorite seat. I… — Lev Grossman Copy Share
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,… — Lev Grossman Copy Share
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