A lot of young-adult authors, great ones, have tried their hands at literary fiction, and not a lot of them have succeeded.… — 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
“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
“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
Every year the literary press praises dozens if not hundreds of novels to the skies, asserting explicitly or implicitly that these books… — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
I went to college at Harvard, then did three years of graduate school at Yale. At both places I studied comparative literature.… — 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
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
Read everything. If you haven't read everything, you'll never be able to write anything. — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
I ought to at least be able to read literature in French. I went to an enlightened grade school that started us… — 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
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
“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
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
I think every fantasy reader secretly believes they know how magic works. — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
It seems to me that the novel as a medium has a very low signal-to-noise ratio. By which I mean: there are… — 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
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
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
“5 1/2 centuries after its 1.0 release, the book is a surprisingly robust piece of information technology. Sure, its memory is relatively… — 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
“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
“All of human literature could just be a user’s guide to the multiverse!” — 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
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 Image
“He was going to sign the papers and he was going to be a motherfucking magician.” — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
“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 Image
“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 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. But I… — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
