Lev Grossman quotes - page 3

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 on Saturday morning in the '80s. (Lev Grossman)

Book tours are excellent things, and one is lucky to get to go on one, but they have a way of leeching away one's will to live.

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People - me included - want to get excited about books. Good books are a good thing.

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The novel is a highly corrupt medium, after all - in the end the vast majority of them simply aren't that great, and are destined to be forgotten.

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I think every fantasy reader secretly believes they know how magic works.

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How often have I met and disliked writers whose books I love; and conversely, hated the books and then wound up liking the writer? Too often.

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It's a terrible thing for a book, when you feel like you're supposed to like it.

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There's a special gut-check moment the first time you write a scene in which somebody casts a spell.

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Becoming an author changes your attitude too. Once you see where books come from, and how they're made, they never seem quite as sacred again.

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It's natural for a child to assume that his or her own childhood is unremarkable.

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The real world is horrible. (Lev Grossman)

One already feels like an anachronism, writing novels in the age of what-ever-this-is-the-age-of, but touring to promote them feels doubly anachronistic. The marketplace is showing an increasing intolerance for the time-honored practice of printing information on paper and shipping it around the country.

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More than fantasy or even science fiction, Ray Bradbury wrote horror, and like so many great horror writers he was himself utterly without fear, of anything. He wasn't afraid of looking uncool - he wasn't scared to openly love innocence, or to be optimistic, or to write sentimentally when he felt that way.

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I've stayed in houses that were in the country, and in England, but I'm still not sure that I've stayed in an English country house.

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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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It's a great thing when you feel that you recognize yourself, deeply and movingly, in a work of literature.

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Oddly, the meanings of books are defined for me much more by their beginnings and middles than they are by their endings.

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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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I came from an anxious, overly intense East Coast academic family. That was the way of our tribe.

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I used to write in a local coffee shop, but there was another guy, another writer, who kept sitting in my favorite seat. I would show up, and he would be there, and I would get exiled to a couch or something, and it would throw me off my game.

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My book group has one rule: no books for adults. We read young adult fiction only. (Lev Grossman)

I have spent many, many hours reading J.K. Rowling's work. I am a known 'Harry Potter' fan.

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I'm happy to report that 'The New Press' is still in business to this day. But not thanks to me. I was a really bad publishing intern.

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I read a lot of literary theory when I was in graduate school, especially about novels, and the best book I ever read about endings was Peter Brooks' 'Reading for the Plot. '

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I went to college at Harvard, then did three years of graduate school at Yale. At both places I studied comparative literature. People find it odd that I went to both Harvard and Yale, and I guess it is odd, but that's just what people did where I grew up.

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