I recognize that on paper, you can’t really tell that I’m a fan or a nerd.
LEV GROSSMANPeople – me included – want to get excited about books. Good books are a good thing.
More Lev Grossman Quotes
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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 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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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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He who completes a quest does not merely find something. He becomes something.
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The truth doesn’t always make a good story, does it?
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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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I came from an anxious, overly intense East Coast academic family. That was the way of our tribe.
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Supposedly 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.
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My book group has one rule: no books for adults. We read young adult fiction only.
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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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I love playing with the conventions of fantasy, and breaking rules, and crossing lines.
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I feel very conscious of my influences. T.H. White is very important for me.
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Do you promise to hate my parents as much as I do?” “Oh, absolutely,” Quentin said. “Maybe even more.
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In a way fighting was just like using magic. You said the words, and they altered the universe. By merely speaking you could create damage and pain, cause tears to fall, drive people away, make yourself feel better, make your life worse.
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