--- title: "14 Way Quotes By Lev Grossman" description: "14 Way quotes by Lev Grossman. Plus more from Lev Grossman and more Way sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a54/lev-grossman-747_book_book-tours-are-excellent-things-and-one_1220464.png" --- > [Book tours are excellent things, and one is lucky to get to go on one, but they have a way of leeching…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lev-grossman/book-tours-are-excellent-things-and-one-is-lucky-to-get-to-go-on-one/) [Lev Grossman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lev-grossman/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a54/lev-grossman-747_book_book-tours-are-excellent-things-and-one_1220464.png) > [Escapism has value, even if I don't know what its value is, exactly. Maybe it's just part of some healthy way that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lev-grossman/escapism-has-value-even-if-i-don-t-know-what-its-value-is-exactly/) [Lev Grossman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lev-grossman/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/53d/lev-grossman-747_deals_escapism-has-value-even-if-i-don-t-know_1616014.png) > [It's an engrossing look at the way the flow of information shapes history-as well as a rare glimpse into the soul of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lev-grossman/it-s-an-engrossing-look-at-the-way-the-flow-of-information-shapes/) [Lev Grossman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lev-grossman/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4db/lev-grossman-747_flow_it-s-an-engrossing-look-at-the-way-the-f_1029489.png) > [The danger would be going back, or staying still. The only way out was through. The past was ruins, but the present…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lev-grossman/the-danger-would-be-going-back-or-staying-still-the-only-way-out-was/) [Lev Grossman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lev-grossman/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/310/lev-grossman-747_danger_the-danger-would-be-going-back-or-stayin_3225289.png) > [That was the thing about the world: it wasn't that things were harder than you thought they were going to be, it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lev-grossman/that-was-the-thing-about-the-world-it-wasn-t-that-things-were-harder/) [Lev Grossman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lev-grossman/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/443/lev-grossman-747_expectations_that-was-the-thing-about-the-world-it-wa_2580066.png) > [What surprised me about 'The Casual Vacancy' was not just how good it was, but the particular way in which it was…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lev-grossman/what-surprised-me-about-the-casual-vacancy-was-not-just-how-good-it/) [Lev Grossman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lev-grossman/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1cf/lev-grossman-747_about_what-surprised-me-about-the-casual-vacan_2776541.png) > [I came from an anxious, overly intense East Coast academic family. That was the way of our tribe.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lev-grossman/i-came-from-an-anxious-overly-intense-east-coast-academic-family-that/) [Lev Grossman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lev-grossman/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d28/lev-grossman-747_academic_i-came-from-an-anxious-overly-intense-ea_2570050.png) > [More than fantasy or even science fiction, Ray Bradbury wrote horror, and like so many great horror writers he was himself utterly…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lev-grossman/more-than-fantasy-or-even-science-fiction-ray-bradbury-wrote-horror/) [Lev Grossman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lev-grossman/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7f2/lev-grossman-747_being-optimistic_more-than-fantasy-or-even-science-fictio_2879538.jpg) > [In a way fighting was just like using magic. You said the words, and they altered the universe. By merely speaking you…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lev-grossman/in-a-way-fighting-was-just-like-using-magic-you-said-the-words-and/) [Lev Grossman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lev-grossman/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/88f/lev-grossman-747_causes_in-a-way-fighting-was-just-like-using-ma_3160960.png) > [Every year the literary press praises dozens if not hundreds of novels to the skies, asserting explicitly or implicitly that these books…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lev-grossman/every-year-the-literary-press-praises-dozens-if-not-hundreds-of/) [Lev Grossman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lev-grossman/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1ab/lev-grossman-747_basements_every-year-the-literary-press-praises-do_1602236.png) > [“Most people carry that pain around inside them their whole lives, until they kill the pain by other means, or until it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lev-grossman/most-people-carry-that-pain-around-inside-them-their-whole-lives/) [Lev Grossman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lev-grossman/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/92e/lev-grossman-747_break_most-people-carry-that-pain-around-insid_1681376.png) > [I feel that's one of the central questions of fantasy. What did we lose when we entered the 20th and 21st century,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lev-grossman/i-feel-that-s-one-of-the-central-questions-of-fantasy-what-did-we/) [Lev Grossman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lev-grossman/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/df8/lev-grossman-747_21st-century_i-feel-that-s-one-of-the-central-questio_2803203.png) > [When I was 35 I realized that I was still thinking a lot about what it would be like to go to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lev-grossman/when-i-was-35-i-realized-that-i-was-still-thinking-a-lot-about-what/) [Lev Grossman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lev-grossman/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c53/lev-grossman-747_book_when-i-was-35-i-realized-that-i-was-stil_2267573.png) > [I always hated those fantasy books where, at the end, all the kids had to go home. At the end of a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lev-grossman/i-always-hated-those-fantasy-books-where-at-the-end-all-the-kids-had/) [Lev Grossman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lev-grossman/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/bff/lev-grossman-747_book_i-always-hated-those-fantasy-books-where_2891895.jpg) ## Other authors on Way ## More by Lev Grossman > [“It was about damn time something happened.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lev-grossman/it-was-about-damn-time-something-happened/) [Lev Grossman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lev-grossman/we-re-wired-to-expect-the-world-to-be-brighter-and-more-meaningful/) [Lev Grossman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lev-grossman/) > [“He was going to sign the papers and he was going to be a motherfucking magician.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lev-grossman/he-was-going-to-sign-the-papers-and-he-was-going-to-be-a/) [Lev Grossman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lev-grossman/) > [“Being brave was easy when you would rather die than give up. Fatigue meant nothing when you actually wanted to suffer.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lev-grossman/being-brave-was-easy-when-you-would-rather-die-than-give-up-fatigue/) [Lev Grossman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lev-grossman/) > [As a writer I'm more drawn to villains who are just slightly mad.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lev-grossman/as-a-writer-i-m-more-drawn-to-villains-who-are-just-slightly-mad/) [Lev Grossman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lev-grossman/he-wasn-t-in-a-safe-little-story-where-wrongs-were-automatically/) [Lev Grossman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lev-grossman/i-love-rare-books-not-that-i-own-a-lot-of-them-mind-you-you-couldn-t/) [Lev Grossman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lev-grossman/by-now-he-had-learned-enough-to-know-that-when-he-was-getting-annoyed/) [Lev Grossman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lev-grossman/about-as-close-you-can-get-to-the-perfect-cerebral-thriller-searingly/) [Lev Grossman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lev-grossman/it-s-true-eliot-said-statistically-historically-and-however-else-you/) [Lev Grossman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lev-grossman/god-i-hope-we-don-t-have-to-use-that-was-all-he-said-out-loud-oh-come/) [Lev Grossman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lev-grossman/) > [I mean, when you're tired of book reviews, you're tired of life.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lev-grossman/i-mean-when-you-re-tired-of-book-reviews-you-re-tired-of-life/) [Lev Grossman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lev-grossman/my-specialty-as-a-collector-is-books-that-almost-have-value-when-i/) [Lev Grossman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lev-grossman/i-used-to-write-in-a-local-coffee-shop-but-there-was-another-guy/) [Lev Grossman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lev-grossman/i-don-t-know-if-i-ve-ever-derived-such-an-immediate-sense-of-calm-and/) [Lev Grossman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lev-grossman/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/way/lev-grossman/#itemlist", "name": "14 Way Quotes By Lev Grossman", "numberOfItems": 14, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Book tours are excellent things, and one is lucky to get to go on one, but they have a way of leeching away one's will to live.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Lev Grossman" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lev-grossman/book-tours-are-excellent-things-and-one-is-lucky-to-get-to-go-on-one/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a54/lev-grossman-747_book_book-tours-are-excellent-things-and-one_1220464.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a54/lev-grossman-747_book_book-tours-are-excellent-things-and-one_1220464.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a54/lev-grossman-747_book_book-tours-are-excellent-things-and-one_1220464.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Book tours are excellent things, and one is lucky to get to go on one, but they have a way of leeching away…” — Lev Grossman", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Escapism has value, even if I don't know what its value is, exactly. 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