Being a writer can be isolating. It's good to be among readers and booksellers. — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
“That was one thing about books: once you read them they couldn’t be unread.” — 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
It didn’t matter where you were, if you were in a room full of books you were at least halfway home. — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
Oddly, the meanings of books are defined for me much more by their beginnings and middles than they are by their endings. — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
How often have I met and disliked writers whose books I love; and conversely, hated the books and then wound up liking… — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
I guess I was raised in a household with a lot of reverence for the physical sanctity of books. You didn't destroy… — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
The novel is a highly corrupt medium, after all - in the end the vast majority of them simply aren't that great,… — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
I used to write in a local coffee shop, but there was another guy, another writer, who kept sitting in my favorite… — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
Until now, I've been a kind of binge-writer - I'll carve out five or six hours on a weekend day and make… — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
The paradox of the English country house is that its state of permanent decline, the fact that its heyday is always behind… — 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… — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
I read Susanna Clarke's Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell, which I think will subsequently be recognized as one of the first great… — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
I got my first whiff of what big-time adult literature was all about when I was in 8th grade. I got it… — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
I read a lot of literary theory when I was in graduate school, especially about novels, and the best book I ever… — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
“but a book that did what books always promised to do and never actually quite did: get you out, really out, of… — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
“It was a bookstore, and he felt at home in bookstores, and he hadn’t had that feeling much lately. He was going… — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
When the oldest Chatwin, melancholy Martin, opens the cabinet of the grandfather clock that stands in a dark, narrow back hallway in… — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
My specialty as a collector is books that almost have value. When I love a book, I don't buy the first edition,… — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
I'm now much more excited about genre distinctions. What I still see breaking down are more the hierarchical arrangements of genres. That… — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
“5 1/2 centuries after its 1.0 release, the book is a surprisingly robust piece of information technology. Sure, its memory is relatively… — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
“I read obsessively when I'm writing. I think there are two kinds of fiction writers, those who read incessantly while they write… — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
“But there was a more seductive, more dangerous truth to Fillory that Quentin couldn’t let go of. It was almost like the… — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
“To make matters worse, some of the books had actually become migratory. In the nineteenth century Brakebills had appointed a librarian with… — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
People - me included - want to get excited about books. Good books are a good thing. — 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
My book group has one rule: no books for adults. We read young adult fiction only. — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
“The library committee had an epic secret meeting about the ethics of literary eugenics which ended in a furious deadlock.” — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
Becoming an author changes your attitude too. Once you see where books come from, and how they're made, they never seem quite… — 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.… — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
“The librarian thought the problem was just that the right books weren’t breeding with each other and proposed a forced mating program.… — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
I've drunk Amazon's free Diet Coke. Nothing makes more sense to me than a company trying to make bookselling into a profitable… — 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
