Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
I feel that's one of the central questions of fantasy. What did we lose when we entered the 20th and 21st century, and how can we mourn what we lost, and what can we replace it with? We're still asking those questions in an urgent way.
Lev Grossman
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Lev Grossman
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: June 26
Journalist
Literary Critic
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
Lexington
Massachusetts
Century
Replace
Lost
Urgent
Stills
Central
Still
Fantasy
Feel
Questions
Feels
Asking
Way
Lose
Mourn
Loses
Entered
More quotes by Lev Grossman
It's time to live with what we have and mourn what we lost.
Lev Grossman
Being a writer can be isolating. It's good to be among readers and booksellers.
Lev Grossman
Josh speculated about the hypothetical contents of an imaginary porn magazine for intelligent trees that would be entitled Enthouse.
Lev Grossman
It was so much easier to be angry. Being angry made him feel strong, even though-- and this contradiction did nothing to diminish his anger-- he was angry only because his position was so weak.
Lev Grossman
For just one second, look at your life and see how perfect it is. 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. It's here, and you'd better decide to enjoy it or you're going to be miserable wherever you go, for the rest of your life, forever.
Lev Grossman
I got my heart's desire, and there my troubles began.
Lev Grossman
We're wired to expect the world to be brighter and more meaningful and more obviously interesting than it actually is. And when we realize that it isn't, we start looking around for the real world.
Lev Grossman
It's wonderful to play around with fantasy, because there are an amazing number of as-yet-unbroken rules out there.
Lev Grossman
People - me included - want to get excited about books. Good books are a good thing.
Lev Grossman
I recognize that on paper, you can't really tell that I'm a fan or a nerd.
Lev Grossman
It's a great thing when you feel that you recognize yourself, deeply and movingly, in a work of literature.
Lev Grossman
In a way fighting was just like using magic. You said the words, and they altered the universe. By merely speaking you could create damage and pain, cause tears to fall, drive people away, make yourself feel better, make your life worse.
Lev Grossman
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
The line between outside and inside is fuzzier in fantasy. Maybe that's something people are looking for.
Lev Grossman
There is really no end to life's little humiliations.
Lev Grossman
A novel with a bad middle is a bad book. A bad ending is something I've just gotten in the habit of forgiving.
Lev Grossman
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.
Lev Grossman
Do you promise to hate my parents as much as I do? Oh, absolutely, Quentin said. Maybe even more.
Lev Grossman
I don't know if I've ever derived such an immediate sense of calm and well-being from any book as I did from 'Right Ho, Jeeves.' It was like I was Pac-Man and the book was a power-up.
Lev Grossman
He who completes a quest does not merely find something. He becomes something.
Lev Grossman