He wasn’t surprised. He was used to this anticlimactic feeling, where by the time you’ve done all the work to get something you don’t even want it anymore.
LEV GROSSMANI 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.
More Lev Grossman Quotes
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Josh speculated about the hypothetical contents of an imaginary porn magazine for intelligent trees that would be entitled Enthouse.
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People – me included – want to get excited about books. Good books are a good thing.
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The process of learning is a nonstop orgy of wonderment.
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The real world is horrible.
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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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Magic is wild, dangerous stuff. You never realize how useful limitations are until it’s much too late.
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I feel very conscious of my influences. T.H. White is very important for me.
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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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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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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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Magic: it was what happened when the mind met the world, and the mind won for a change.
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Young minds – young brains – need stories and ideas like the ones in those [censored and banned] books in order to grow. They need ideas that you disagree with. They need ideas that I disagree with. Or they’ll never be able to figure out what ideas they believe in.
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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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We have lived too long. The great days are past.
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