Magic: it was what happened when the mind met the world, and the mind won for a change. — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
A magician is strong because he feels the pain between what the world is and what he would make of it. — 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
That was the thing about the world: it wasn't that things were harder than you thought they were going to be, it… — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
You're all so obsessed with other worlds, you're so convinced that this one is crap and everywhere else is great, but you've… — 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… — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
Escapism has value, even if I don't know what its value is, exactly. Maybe it's just part of some healthy way that… — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
Most people are blind to magic. They move thru a blank and empty world. They’re bored with their lives and there’s nothing… — 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
In our world no one ever knows what to do, and everyone's just as clueless and full of crap as everyone else,… — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
A magician is strong because he feels pain. He feels the difference between what the world is and what he would make… — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
Maybe there's a sense that technology isn't necessarily the answer to a lot of our problems. Fantasy offers readers a less radically… — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
“Most people carry that pain around inside them their whole lives, until they kill the pain by other means, or until it… — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
Quentin had an obsolete sailing ship that had been raised from the dead. He had psychotically effective swordsman and an enigmatic witch-queen.… — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
I've read plenty of J.G. Ballard, but I'm not really a Ballardian. I've met Ballardians, and I know when I can't compete.… — 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
