I love playing with the conventions of fantasy, and breaking rules, and crossing lines.
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.
More Lev Grossman Quotes
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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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His crush went from exciting to depressing, as if he’d gone from the first blush of infatuation to the terminal nostalgia of a former lover without even the temporary relief of an actual relationship in between.
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He who completes a quest does not merely find something. He becomes something.
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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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I recognize that on paper, you can’t really tell that I’m a fan or a nerd.
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You’re all so obsessed with other worlds, you’re so convinced that this one is crap and everywhere else is great, but you’ve never bothered to figure out what’s going on here!
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His whole personality was like an elaborate joke that he never stopped telling.
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The main advantage of being a reviewer is that you read a lot. A lot of books get sent to you, and you have an amazing vantage point from which to observe what’s going on in contemporary fiction – not only genre stuff, the whole spectrum.
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I feel very conscious of my influences. T.H. White is very important for me.
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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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Don’t take anyone’s writing advice too seriously.
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I studied the cello for a long time, from when I was little up through college.
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Magic is wild, dangerous stuff. You never realize how useful limitations are until it’s much too late.
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The real world is horrible.
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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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