"It's a terrible thing for a book, when……" — Lev Grossman

"It's a terrible thing for a book, when you feel like you're supposed to like it."

— Lev Grossman

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109 Quotes by Lev Grossman

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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…

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I'm not a comic book guy at all. — Darren Aronofsky
I don't believe in personal immortality; the only way I expect to have some version of such a thing is… — Isaac Asimov
I'd never heard of the 'Lord of the Rings', actually. So I went to the bookstore and there it was,… — Sean Astin
The question is, are we happy to suppose that our grandchildren may never be able to see an elephant except… — David Attenborough
I have a big following among the biogeeks of this world. Nobody ever puts them in books. — Margaret Atwood
Once you publish a book, it is out of your control. You cannot dictate how people read it. — Margaret Atwood
Writers and books are cheap dates, especially when you compare the cost of a book with a ticket to the… — Margaret Atwood
Our generation in the west was lucky: we had readymade gateways. We had books, paper, teachers, schools and libraries. But… — Margaret Atwood

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