Lev Grossman

“It was about damn time something happened.”

— 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…

— Lev Grossman

“He was going to sign the papers and he was going to be a motherfucking magician.”

— Lev Grossman

“Being brave was easy when you would rather die than give up. Fatigue meant nothing when you actually wanted to suffer.”

— Lev Grossman

As a writer I'm more drawn to villains who are just slightly mad.

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“He wasn't in a safe little story where wrongs were automatically righted; he was still in the real world, where bad bitter…

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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

By now he had learned enough to know that when he was getting annoyed at somebody else, it was usually because there…

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About as close you can get to the perfect cerebral thriller: searingly smart, ridiculously funny, and fast as hell... I defy anybody…

— 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…

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“God, I hope we don’t have to use that,” was all he said out loud. “Oh, come on, Quentina. We’re not looking…

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I mean, when you're tired of book reviews, you're tired of life.

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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

I used to write in a local coffee shop, but there was another guy, another writer, who kept sitting in my favorite…

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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…

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“She hadn’t even known they were volcanic, but now they were lobbing big seminal gobbets of lava all over their lower slopes,…

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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

“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…

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“He would lose whatever he had to lose, if that’s what it took to win.”

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“The mistake people make,” Bingle said, “is thinking that there are different styles.” “All right.” “Force, balance, leverage, momentum—these principles never change.…

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“You do realize it's all right to have nice things sometimes, right?”

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“Your magician self, that loopy doppelgänger, was always with you, tugging at your sleeve, whispering silently that your real life was a…

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“A Black Madonna: the blackness of death, but also the blackness of good soil, dark with decay, which gives rise to life.”

— Lev Grossman

“If my generation is remembered for anything, it will be as the last one that remembers the world before the Internet.”

— Lev Grossman

“Julia picked at her food, managing a bite every few minutes, like her body was an unloved pet that she was being…

— Lev Grossman