It's not really possible to open 'The Casual Vacancy' without a lot of expectations both high and low crashing around in your brain and distorting your vision. There's no point pretending they're not there. — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
What surprised me about 'The Casual Vacancy' was not just how good it was, but the particular way in which it was good. — 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
