"Fanfiction is what literature might look like if……" — Lev Grossman
"Fanfiction is what literature might look like if it were reinvented from scratch after a nuclear apocalypse by a band of brilliant pop-culture junkies trapped in a sealed bunker. They don't do it for money. That's not what it's about. The writers write it and put it up online just for the satisfaction. They're fans, but they're not silent, couchbound consumers of media. The culture talks to them, and they talk back to the culture in its own language."
—
Lev Grossman
★
★
★
★
★
0.0 avg (0 ratings)
109 Quotes by Lev Grossman
Lev Grossman has 109 quotes on this site.
A few more worth reading:
-
You're saying the gods don't have free will." "The power to make mistakes," Penny said. "Only we have that. Mortals
-
You're all so obsessed with other worlds, you're so convinced that this one is crap and everywhere else is great,…
-
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…
-
The paradox of the English country house is that its state of permanent decline, the fact that its heyday is…
-
It didn’t matter where you were, if you were in a room full of books you were at least halfway…
-
Young minds - young brains - need stories and ideas like the ones in those [censored and banned] books in…
-
Some of the comments on YouTube make you weep for the future of humanity just for the spelling alone, never…
-
About as close you can get to the perfect cerebral thriller: searingly smart, ridiculously funny, and fast as hell... I…
-
In our world no one ever knows what to do, and everyone's just as clueless and full of crap as…
-
Don't take anyone's writing advice too seriously.
-
The new Web is a very different thing. It's a tool for bringing together the small contributions of millions of…
-
As a teenager in Brooklyn Quentin had often imagined himself engaged in martial heroics, but after this he knew, as…
See all 109 quotes by Lev Grossman »
More Apocalypse Quotes
This quote is filed under Apocalypse Quotes,
one of 133 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
-
The war was won on both sides: by the Vietnamese on the ground, by the Americans in the electronic mental…
— Jean Baudrillard
-
In every age he had ever studied, doomsayers abounded. No millennium is attractive to the man immured in it; enough…
— Janet Morris
-
Nuclear apocalypse-who do you need? Actors are probably not top of the list. What can I do for you? I…
— Christian Bale
-
The 'coming of the Self' is an apocalypse for the ego, the 'you' that wants to hang along for the…
— Daniel Pinchbeck
-
If we could destroy custom at a blow and see the stars as a child sees them, we should need…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
-
I would be the worst president in the history of the United States. Unless you want the apocalypse to happen…
— Darren Criss
-
I already survived one apocalypse, I don't need another.
— Michael Rooker
-
What scares me? Oh, now that's a big question. I don't know what scares me- cockroaches, nuclear apocalypse. Fear is…
— Zachary Quinto
-
I grew up with Apocalypse Now and Badlands, so I had a real awe thing going.
— Gary Cole
-
My mind is filled with cataclysm and apocalypse. I wish for earthquakes, eruptions, flood.
— Madeline Miller
-
Literature is a human apocalypse, man's revelation to man, and criticism is not a body of adjudications, but the awareness…
— Northrop Frye
-
Here is the alphabet of the pulsing apocalypse that is fatherhood, a book in love with what words, like parents,…
— Lucy Corin
See all 133 Apocalypse Quotes »