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 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
When I got to college I simply decided that I could speak French, because I just could not spend any more time… — 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
“It was a bookstore, and he felt at home in bookstores, and he hadn’t had that feeling much lately. He was going… — 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
My ultimate goal is to drive people back to the books, when I think of an adaptation. — 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
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
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
