I came from an anxious, overly intense East Coast academic family. That was the way of our tribe.
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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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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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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He who completes a quest does not merely find something. He becomes something.
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My book group has one rule: no books for adults. We read young adult fiction only.
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We have reached the point where ignorance and neglect are the best we can hope for in a ruler.
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I love playing with the conventions of fantasy, and breaking rules, and crossing lines.
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It turns out that there is something that can compete with free: easy.
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Maybe there’s a sense that technology isn’t necessarily the answer to a lot of our problems. Fantasy offers readers a less radically alienated world – a world where desires and feelings that normally are trapped inside your mind are made real in the form of magic.
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The real world is horrible.
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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 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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You’re saying the gods don’t have free will.” “The power to make mistakes,” Penny said. “Only we have that. Mortals
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The paradox of the English country house is that its state of permanent decline, the fact that its heyday is always behind it, is part of the seduction, just as it is part of the seduction of books in general.
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People – me included – want to get excited about books. Good books are a good thing.
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