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Book Quotes by Lev Grossman
- The paradox of the English country house is that its state of permanent decline, the fact that its heyday is always behind it, is part…
- It didn’t matter where you were, if you were in a room full of books you were at least halfway home.
- Young minds - young brains - need stories and ideas like the ones in those [censored and banned] books in order to grow. They need…
- People - me included - want to get excited about books. Good books are a good thing.
- My ultimate goal is to drive people back to the books, when I think of an adaptation.
- I always hated those fantasy books where, at the end, all the kids had to go home. At the end of a Narnia book, you…
- A novel with a bad middle is a bad book. A bad ending is something I've just gotten in the habit of forgiving.
- Becoming an author changes your attitude too. Once you see where books come from, and how they're made, they never seem quite as sacred again.
- 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…
- How often have I met and disliked writers whose books I love; and conversely, hated the books and then wound up liking the writer? Too…
- I guess I was raised in a household with a lot of reverence for the physical sanctity of books. You didn't destroy books.
- I mean, when you're tired of book reviews, you're tired of life.
- It's a terrible thing for a book, when you feel like you're supposed to like it.
- My book group has one rule: no books for adults. We read young adult fiction only.
- Oddly, the meanings of books are defined for me much more by their beginnings and middles than they are by their endings.
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- Wasn't there a spell for making yourself happy? Somebody must have invented one. How could he have missed it? Why didn't they teach it? Was…
- When the oldest Chatwin, melancholy Martin, opens the cabinet of the grandfather clock that stands in a dark, narrow back hallway in his aunt’s house…
- When I left college I thought - based on a staggeringly inadequate understanding of how the world worked - that I might like to go…
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