Quote

Do you promise to hate my parents as much as I do? Oh, absolutely, Quentin said. Maybe even more.

Lev Grossman

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Lev Grossman
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: June 26
Journalist
Literary Critic
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
Lexington
Massachusetts
Maybe
Hate
Even
Much
Quentin
Absolutely
Promise
Parents
Parent

More quotes by Lev Grossman

Image
Josh speculated about the hypothetical contents of an imaginary porn magazine for intelligent trees that would be entitled Enthouse.
Lev Grossman
Image
Oddly, the meanings of books are defined for me much more by their beginnings and middles than they are by their endings.
Lev Grossman
Image
You didn’t get the quest you wanted, you got the one you could do.
Lev Grossman
Image
We have lived too long. The great days are past.
Lev Grossman
Image
I guess I was raised in a household with a lot of reverence for the physical sanctity of books. You didn't destroy books.
Lev Grossman
Image
Genuinely social people never ceased to amaze him. Their brains seemed to generate an inexhaustible fund of things to say, naturally, with no effort, out of nothing at all.
Lev Grossman
Image
Stop looking for the next secret door that is going to lead you to your real life. Stop waiting. This is it: there's nothing else.
Lev Grossman
Image
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 Grossman
Image
The real problem with being around James was that he was always the hero. And what did that make you? Either the sidekick or the villain.
Lev Grossman
Image
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.
Lev Grossman
Image
It's natural for a child to assume that his or her own childhood is unremarkable.
Lev Grossman
Image
I got my heart's desire, and there my troubles began.
Lev Grossman
Image
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.
Lev Grossman
Image
It's wonderful to play around with fantasy, because there are an amazing number of as-yet-unbroken rules out there.
Lev Grossman
Image
People - me included - want to get excited about books. Good books are a good thing.
Lev Grossman
Image
I recognize that on paper, you can't really tell that I'm a fan or a nerd.
Lev Grossman
Image
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.
Lev Grossman
Image
Quentin had an obsolete sailing ship that had been raised from the dead. He had psychotically effective swordsman and an enigmatic witch-queen. It wasn't the Fellowship of the Ring, but then again he wasn't trying to save the world from Sauron, he was trying to perform a tax audit on a bunch of hick islanders.
Lev Grossman
Image
Read everything. If you haven't read everything, you'll never be able to write anything.
Lev Grossman
Image
It turns out that there is something that can compete with free: easy.
Lev Grossman