Escapism has value, even if I don't know what its value is, exactly. Maybe it's just part of some healthy way that… — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
It's an engrossing look at the way the flow of information shapes history-as well as a rare glimpse into the soul of… — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
Book tours are excellent things, and one is lucky to get to go on one, but they have a way of leeching… — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
“Most people carry that pain around inside them their whole lives, until they kill the pain by other means, or until it… — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
Every year the literary press praises dozens if not hundreds of novels to the skies, asserting explicitly or implicitly that these books… — 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… — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
I came from an anxious, overly intense East Coast academic family. That was the way of our tribe. — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
That was the thing about the world: it wasn't that things were harder than you thought they were going to be, it… — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
The danger would be going back, or staying still. The only way out was through. The past was ruins, but the present… — 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
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
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
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
