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Novel Quotes by Lev Grossman
- One already feels like an anachronism, writing novels in the age of what-ever-this-is-the-age-of, but touring to promote them feels doubly anachronistic. The marketplace is showing…
- I read Susanna Clarke's Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell, which I think will subsequently be recognized as one of the first great novels of the…
- A novel with a bad middle is a bad book. A bad ending is something I've just gotten in the habit of forgiving.
- The novel is a highly corrupt medium, after all - in the end the vast majority of them simply aren't that great, and are destined…
- 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…
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