Quote

You don’t learn about yourself by being alone, you learn about yourself from other people.

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
Alone
Learn
People

More quotes by Lev Grossman

Image
You didn’t get the quest you wanted, you got the one you could do.
Lev Grossman
Image
Being a writer can be isolating. It's good to be among readers and booksellers.
Lev Grossman
Image
It's time to live with what we have and mourn what we lost.
Lev Grossman
Image
My ultimate goal is to drive people back to the books, when I think of an adaptation.
Lev Grossman
Image
We have lived too long. The great days are past.
Lev Grossman
Image
It turns out that there is something that can compete with free: easy.
Lev Grossman
Image
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. '
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
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!
Lev Grossman
Image
I'm not one of your knockabout, knuckle-scarred, Internet-controversy-courting book critics. Occasionally I stumble into controversy accidentally, but not because I enjoy it. It's probably just because I'm a weird person.
Lev Grossman
Image
The problem with growing up is that once you're grown up, the people who aren't grown up aren't fun anymore.
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
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
Everybody wanted to be the hero of their own story. Nobody wanted to be comic relief.
Lev Grossman
Image
I got my heart's desire, and there my troubles began.
Lev Grossman
Image
People - me included - want to get excited about books. Good books are a good thing.
Lev Grossman
Image
My book group has one rule: no books for adults. We read young adult fiction only.
Lev Grossman
Image
There's a special gut-check moment the first time you write a scene in which somebody casts a spell.
Lev Grossman
Image
Every year the literary press praises dozens if not hundreds of novels to the skies, asserting explicitly or implicitly that these books will probably not be suffering water damage in the basements of their authors' houses 20 years from now. But historically, anyway, that's not the way the novelistic ecology works.
Lev Grossman
Image
Though the funny thing about never being asked for anything is that after a while you start to feel like maybe you don’t have anything worth giving.
Lev Grossman