I feel very conscious of my influences. T.H. White is very important for me. — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
It's a terrible thing for a book, when you feel like you're supposed to like it. — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
It's a great thing when you feel that you recognize yourself, deeply and movingly, in a work of literature. — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
Though the funny thing about never being asked for anything is that after a while you start to feel like maybe you… — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
A magician is strong because he feels the pain between what the world is and what he would make of it. — 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
A magician is strong because he feels pain. He feels the difference between what the world is and what he would make… — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
When I was 35 I realized that I was still thinking a lot about what it would be like to go to… — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
It was so much easier to be angry. Being angry made him feel strong, even though-- and this contradiction did nothing to… — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
In a way fighting was just like using magic. You said the words, and they altered the universe. By merely speaking you… — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
One already feels like an anachronism, writing novels in the age of what-ever-this-is-the-age-of, but touring to promote them feels doubly anachronistic. The… — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
The idea of some kind of objectively constant, universal literary value is seductive. It feels real. It feels like a stone cold… — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
Nothing is wrong with you. You're not different. Everybody feels as bad as you do: this is just what writing a novel… — 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
