Some of the comments on YouTube make you weep for the future of humanity just for the spelling alone, never mind the obscenity and the naked hatred.
LEV GROSSMANSome of the comments on YouTube make you weep for the future of humanity just for the spelling alone, never mind the obscenity and the naked hatred.
More Lev Grossman Quotes
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Don’t take anyone’s writing advice too seriously.
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Magic: it was what happened when the mind met the world, and the mind won for a change.
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The process of learning is a nonstop orgy of wonderment.
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Stop looking for the next secret door that is going to lead you to your real life. Stop waiting. This is it: there’s nothing else.
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I loved fantasy, but I particularly loved the stories in which somebody got out of where they were and into somewhere better – as in the Chronicles Of Narnia, The Wizard Of Oz, The Phantom Tollbooth, the Dungeons & Dragons cartoon.
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The problem with growing up is that once you’re grown up, the people who aren’t grown up aren’t fun anymore.
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By now he had learned enough to know that when he was getting annoyed at somebody else, it was usually because there was something that he himself should be doing, and he wasn’t doing it.
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We have lived too long. The great days are past.
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People – me included – want to get excited about books. Good books are a good thing.
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Escapism has value, even if I don’t know what its value is, exactly. Maybe it’s just part of some healthy way that we deal with the world.
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I feel that’s one of the central questions of fantasy. What did we lose when we entered the 20th and 21st century, and how can we mourn what we lost, and what can we replace it with? We’re still asking those questions in an urgent way.
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It’s an engrossing look at the way the flow of information shapes history-as well as a rare glimpse into the soul of the hardcore geek
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I feel very conscious of my influences. T.H. White is very important for me.
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I think for a long time, I was paralyzed by some of my hopes and ideals for what my life was going to be like. I had this perfect vision of how my life should go, but it seemed – it was – impossible to realize, so I sat around for a long, long time doing almost nothing at all.
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The real problem with being around James was that he was always the hero. And what did that make you? Either the sidekick or the villain.
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Young minds – young brains – need stories and ideas like the ones in those [censored and banned] books in order to grow. They need ideas that you disagree with. They need ideas that I disagree with. Or they’ll never be able to figure out what ideas they believe in.
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The truth doesn’t always make a good story, does it?
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The real world is horrible.
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A magician is strong because he feels the pain between what the world is and what he would make of it.
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He wasn’t surprised. He was used to this anticlimactic feeling, where by the time you’ve done all the work to get something you don’t even want it anymore.
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A novel with a bad middle is a bad book. A bad ending is something I’ve just gotten in the habit of forgiving.
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I came from an anxious, overly intense East Coast academic family. That was the way of our tribe.
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Josh speculated about the hypothetical contents of an imaginary porn magazine for intelligent trees that would be entitled Enthouse.
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The danger would be going back, or staying still. The only way out was through. The past was ruins, but the present was still in play.
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It turns out that there is something that can compete with free: easy.
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Careful what you hunt, lest you catch it.
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