Literature Quotes by Lev Grossman

“It was about damn time something happened.”

— Lev Grossman

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

“He was going to sign the papers and he was going to be a motherfucking magician.”

— Lev Grossman

“Being brave was easy when you would rather die than give up. Fatigue meant nothing when you actually wanted to suffer.”

— Lev Grossman

As a writer I'm more drawn to villains who are just slightly mad.

— Lev Grossman

“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

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

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

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

“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

“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

I mean, when you're tired of book reviews, you're tired of life.

— Lev Grossman

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

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

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