Magic is wild, dangerous stuff. You never realize how useful limitations are until it's much too late. — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
“Earth or Fillory, did it even matter? What was the huge conundrum? Everywhere you looked there was so much richness, you could… — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
“By the standards of magical society they’d fallen at the first hurdle: they hadn’t had the basic good sense to keep their… — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
“Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. Turn it around. What is advanced magic indistinguishable from? Any sufficiently advanced magic is… — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
“You cannot study magic. You cannot learn it. You must ingest it. Digest it. You must merge with it. And it with… — 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
“You don't have to do anything. This is what you don't understand! You don't know any older magicians except our professors. It's… — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
“The world was fucking awful. It was a wretched, desolate place, a desert of meaninglessness, a heartless wasteland, where horrific things happened… — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
“But I'll tell you something: I think you're magicians because you're unhappy. A magician is strong because he feels pain. He feels… — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
“A magician is strong because he hurts more than others. His wound is his strength.” — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
Magic: it was what happened when the mind met the world, and the mind won for a change. — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
I think every fantasy reader secretly believes they know how magic works. — 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
Most people are blind to magic. They move thru a blank and empty world. They’re bored with their lives and there’s nothing… — 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
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
“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
“For the true magician there is no very clear line between what lies inside the mind and what lies outside it.If you… — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
“I have a little theory that I'd like to air here, if I may. What is it that you think makes you… — 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
