Magic is wild, dangerous stuff. You never realize how useful limitations are until it’s much too late.
LEV GROSSMANBy 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.
More Lev Grossman Quotes
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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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I feel very conscious of my influences. T.H. White is very important for me.
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We have lived too long. The great days are past.
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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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Careful what you hunt, lest you catch it.
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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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I recognize that on paper, you can’t really tell that I’m a fan or a nerd.
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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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The real world is horrible.
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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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Don’t take anyone’s writing advice too seriously.
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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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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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He who completes a quest does not merely find something. He becomes something.
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