Lev Grossman

“What makes you think what happened to you on Earth wasn't an adventure?”

— Lev Grossman

It turns out that there is something that can compete with free: easy.

— Lev Grossman

“I was perfectly happy where I was, deliquescing, atom by atom, amid a riot of luxury.”

— Lev Grossman

I feel very conscious of my influences. T.H. White is very important for me.

— Lev Grossman

“There was enough hiding in life. Sometimes you just wanted to show somebody your tits.”

— Lev Grossman

It didn’t matter where you were, if you were in a room full of books you were at least halfway home.

— Lev Grossman

His whole personality was like an elaborate joke that he never stopped telling.

— Lev Grossman

“Afterward she took the tree aside and conferred with it privately.”

— Lev Grossman

What surprised me about 'The Casual Vacancy' was not just how good it was, but the particular way in which it was…

— Lev Grossman

It was so much easier to be angry. Being angry made him feel strong, even though-- and this contradiction did nothing to…

— Lev Grossman

“Nothing made you look like more of a dick than standing there trying to find the end of your scabbard with the…

— Lev Grossman

“She still had her bad days, no question, when the black dog of depression sniffed her out and settled its crushing weight…

— Lev Grossman

“Happiness was a real, actual, achievable possibility. It came when you called. Or no, it never left you in the first place.”

— Lev Grossman

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

You're saying the gods don't have free will." "The power to make mistakes," Penny said. "Only we have that. Mortals

— Lev Grossman

“The library committee had an epic secret meeting about the ethics of literary eugenics which ended in a furious deadlock.”

— Lev Grossman

“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

“If you please, Admiral, don't be a cock. I'll know it when I see it, and if, for some reason, I don't,…

— Lev Grossman

“They went around the room telling stories about how they'd gotten here. No two were exactly the same, but there was always…

— Lev Grossman

“...until sunlight came bleeding up over the horizon, like more acid blood oozing out of his sick ruptured heart, which felt -…

— Lev Grossman

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

A magician is strong because he feels pain. He feels the difference between what the world is and what he would make…

— Lev Grossman

I feel that's one of the central questions of fantasy. What did we lose when we entered the 20th and 21st century,…

— Lev Grossman

I always hated those fantasy books where, at the end, all the kids had to go home. At the end of a…

— Lev Grossman

“I can’t overstate how little I knew about myself at 22, or how little I’d thought about what I was doing. When…

— Lev Grossman

“Eliot had no idea where he was going, but he’d read enough to know that a state of relative ignorance wasn’t necessarily…

— Lev Grossman

As a teenager in Brooklyn Quentin had often imagined himself engaged in martial heroics, but after this he knew, as a cold…

— Lev Grossman

She still had her bad days, no question, when the black dog of depression sniffed her out and settled its crushing weight…

— Lev Grossman

“And if she liked and trusted the person who asked, she would add that yes, it was kind of a lot to…

— Lev Grossman

“There are any number of reasons to want novels to survive. The way [Jonathan] Franzen thinks about it is that books can…

— Lev Grossman

“I don’t mind telling you I found the whole business more than a little provoking. I was being called, you understand, and…

— Lev Grossman

“I’ve learned that the creative life may or may not be the apex of human civilization, but either way it’s not what…

— Lev Grossman

I studied the cello for a long time, from when I was little up through college.

— Lev Grossman

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

— Lev Grossman

“Alone in his room, he smiled at his secret greatness.”

— Lev Grossman

A magician is strong because he feels the pain between what the world is and what he would make of it.

— Lev Grossman

“The mistake people make,” Bingle said, “is thinking that there are different styles.”

— Lev Grossman

Being a hero, the man had observed, is largely a matter of knowing one’s cues.

— Lev Grossman

“Everybody’s forgiven you but you. And you are so far behind us.” “You might be surprised about that.”

— Lev Grossman

“You do realize it's all right to have nice things sometimes, right?”

— Lev Grossman