I love playing with the conventions of fantasy, and breaking rules, and crossing lines.
LEV GROSSMANI 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.
More Lev Grossman Quotes
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Don’t take anyone’s writing advice too seriously.
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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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His whole personality was like an elaborate joke that he never stopped telling.
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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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My book group has one rule: no books for adults. We read young adult fiction only.
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The truth doesn’t always make a good story, does it?
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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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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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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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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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People – me included – want to get excited about books. Good books are a good thing.
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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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The process of learning is a nonstop orgy of wonderment.
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I studied the cello for a long time, from when I was little up through college.
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The real world is horrible.
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