I love playing with the conventions of fantasy, and breaking rules, and crossing lines.
LEV GROSSMANI love playing with the conventions of fantasy, and breaking rules, and crossing lines.
LEV GROSSMANDo you promise to hate my parents as much as I do?” “Oh, absolutely,” Quentin said. “Maybe even more.
LEV GROSSMANThe real world is horrible.
LEV GROSSMANEscapism has value, even if I don’t know what its value is, exactly. Maybe it’s just part of some healthy way that we deal with the world.
LEV GROSSMANThe 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.
LEV GROSSMANA magician is strong because he feels the pain between what the world is and what he would make of it.
LEV GROSSMANWe have lived too long. The great days are past.
LEV GROSSMANThe problem with growing up is that once you’re grown up, the people who aren’t grown up aren’t fun anymore.
LEV GROSSMANSupposedly 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.
LEV GROSSMANCareful what you hunt, lest you catch it.
LEV GROSSMANThe truth doesn’t always make a good story, does it?
LEV GROSSMANI recognize that on paper, you can’t really tell that I’m a fan or a nerd.
LEV GROSSMANMaybe 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.
LEV GROSSMANSome of the comments on YouTube make you weep for the future of humanity just for the spelling alone, never mind the obscenity and the naked hatred.
LEV GROSSMANYou’re saying the gods don’t have free will.” “The power to make mistakes,” Penny said. “Only we have that. Mortals
LEV GROSSMANIt turns out that there is something that can compete with free: easy.
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