Growing up in the '70s and '80s, science fiction and especially fantasy had such a stigma attached to them. I felt so… — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
I love playing with the conventions of fantasy, and breaking rules, and crossing lines. — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
I'm a fantasy writer. I don't do SF. This is important to me. If you're not clear on what genre you're in,… — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
I loved fantasy, but I particularly loved the stories in which somebody got out of where they were and into somewhere better… — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
The line between outside and inside is fuzzier in fantasy. Maybe that's something people are looking for. — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
It's wonderful to play around with fantasy, because there are an amazing number of as-yet-unbroken rules out there. — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
I loved fantasy, but I particularly loved the stories in which somebody got out of where they were and into somewhere better… — 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
“Like wine, Provençal magic had its own distinctive terroir. It was rich and chaotic and romantic. It was a night-magic, confabulated out… — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
I think every fantasy reader secretly believes they know how magic works. — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
More than fantasy or even science fiction, Ray Bradbury wrote horror, and like so many great horror writers he was himself utterly… — 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
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
