All Lev Grossman Quotes
- Every year the literary press praises dozens if not hundreds of novels to the skies, asserting explicitly or implicitly that these books will probably not… Asserting
- I read a lot of literary theory when I was in graduate school, especially about novels, and the best book I ever read about endings… Best
- I went to college at Harvard, then did three years of graduate school at Yale. At both places I studied comparative literature. People find it… Both
- I'm not one of your knockabout, knuckle-scarred, Internet-controversy-courting book critics. Occasionally I stumble into controversy accidentally, but not because I enjoy it. It's probably just… Accidentally
- Until now, I've been a kind of binge-writer - I'll carve out five or six hours on a weekend day and make a large container… Bang
- The problem with growing up is that once you're grown up, the people who aren't grown up aren't fun anymore. Anymore
- If there's a single lesson that life teaches us, it's that wishing doesn't make it so. Lesson
- A magician is strong because he feels pain. He feels the difference between what the world is and what he would make of it. Or… Chest
- Most people carry that pain around inside them their whole lives, until they kill the pain by other means, or until it kills them. But… Another Way
- I got my heart's desire, and there my troubles began. Began
- We have lived too long. The great days are past. Days
- The truth doesn't always make a good story, does it? Always Make
- It's time to live with what we have and mourn what we lost. Inspirational
- In a way fighting was just like using magic. You said the words, and they altered the universe. By merely speaking you could create damage… Altered
- The danger would be going back, or staying still. The only way out was through. The past was ruins, but the present was still in… Danger
- It was so much easier to be angry. Being angry made him feel strong, even though-- and this contradiction did nothing to diminish his anger--… Anger
- His crush went from exciting to depressing, as if he'd gone from the first blush of infatuation to the terminal nostalgia of a former lover… Actual
- The life I should be living had been mislaid through some clerical error by the cosmic bureaucracy. Been
- Most people are blind to magic. They move thru a blank and empty world. They’re bored with their lives and there’s nothing they can do… Alive
- Josh speculated about the hypothetical contents of an imaginary porn magazine for intelligent trees that would be entitled Enthouse. Contents
- For just one second, look at your life and see how perfect it is. Stop looking for the next secret door that is going to… Better
- The process of learning is a nonstop orgy of wonderment. Funny
- 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 that… Brighter
- There is really no end to life's little humiliations. End
- His whole personality was like an elaborate joke that he never stopped telling. Elaborate