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Lev Grossman

(1969) Journalist United States

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Lev Grossman is a journalist from the United States, best known for The Magicians: A Novel.

Quick Facts About Lev Grossman

Born: June 26, 1969
Nationality: United States
Profession: Journalist
Notable works: The Magicians: A Novel

About Lev Grossman

He later wrote the children’s books The Silver Arrow and its sequel The Golden Swift, as well as The Bright Sword, a new take on the King Arthur legend. He also turned one of his short stories into the screenplay for the movie The Map of Tiny Perfect Things.

Awards & Honors

Astounding Award for Best New Writer

Quotes by Lev Grossman · Page 10

I ought to at least be able to read literature in French. I went to an enlightened grade school that started us…

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“He was aware for the first time of how quiet the city had gotten. After dark the streets and canals seemed to…

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“But walking along Fifth Avenue in Brooklyn, in his black overcoat and his gray interview suit, Quentin knew he wasn’t happy. Why…

Happiness

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The paradox of the English country house is that its state of permanent decline, the fact that its heyday is always behind…

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“It was funny how just when you thought you knew yourself through and through, you stumbled on a new kind of strength,…

Strength

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The new Web is a very different thing. It's a tool for bringing together the small contributions of millions of people and…

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Most people are blind to magic. They move thru a blank and empty world. They’re bored with their lives and there’s nothing…

Alive

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When the oldest Chatwin, melancholy Martin, opens the cabinet of the grandfather clock that stands in a dark, narrow back hallway in…

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It seems to me that the novel as a medium has a very low signal-to-noise ratio. By which I mean: there are…

Books

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“She considered herself too smart to believe in things she had no evidence for, and that behaved in ways that violated every…

Heart

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The year after I graduated college I had a job in a library. When people underlined passages in the library books, or…

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“She swore she could prove it mathematically, but the calculations required were so involved that they would have required a computer the…

Computers

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“Julia would do anything to make the time pass. She killed time, murdered it, massacred it and hid the bodies. She threw…

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Supposedly I've got traces of an English accent, though I can't hear it. I must have inherited it from my mother, who's…

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“Both their attention and their neglect were equally intolerable. His world had become complicated and interesting and magical. Theirs was mundane and…

Neglect

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In a way fighting was just like using magic. You said the words, and they altered the universe. By merely speaking you…

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More than fantasy or even science fiction, Ray Bradbury wrote horror, and like so many great horror writers he was himself utterly…

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“He had a goatee that was maybe growing into something that was more than a goatee, which made him look like an…

Coffee shop

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“Your magician self, that loopy doppelgänger, was always with you, tugging at your sleeve, whispering silently that your real life was a…

Fake life

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Lev Grossman by topic

Books (59) Life (41) Time (33) Book (33) Writer (32) Magic (22) Writing (21) World (16) Magician (15) People (14) Mind (14) Fantasy (13) Real life (11) Novel (11) Happiness (11) Thinking (10) Heart (10)