A magician is strong because he feels the pain between what the world is and what he would make of it.
LEV GROSSMANA magician is strong because he feels the pain between what the world is and what he would make of it.
LEV GROSSMANIt’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
LEV GROSSMANCareful what you hunt, lest you catch it.
LEV GROSSMANI feel very conscious of my influences. T.H. White is very important for me.
LEV GROSSMANSupposedly I’ve got traces of an English accent, though I can’t hear it. I must have inherited it from my mother, who’s English, and then I think it was exacerbated by the fact that I live with an Australian.
LEV GROSSMANIt turns out that there is something that can compete with free: easy.
LEV GROSSMANHe 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.
LEV GROSSMANThe novel is a highly corrupt medium, after all – in the end the vast majority of them simply aren’t that great, and are destined to be forgotten.
LEV GROSSMANDon’t take anyone’s writing advice too seriously.
LEV GROSSMANMy book group has one rule: no books for adults. We read young adult fiction only.
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.
LEV GROSSMANPeople – me included – want to get excited about books. Good books are a good thing.
LEV GROSSMANWe have lived too long. The great days are past.
LEV GROSSMANI came from an anxious, overly intense East Coast academic family. That was the way of our tribe.
LEV GROSSMANHe who completes a quest does not merely find something. He becomes something.
LEV GROSSMANMagic is wild, dangerous stuff. You never realize how useful limitations are until it’s much too late.
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