Quote

It turns out that there is something that can compete with free: easy.

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
Free
Easy
Something
Compete
Turns

More quotes by Lev Grossman

Image
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
Image
The new Web is a very different thing. It's a tool for bringing together the small contributions of millions of people and making them matter. Silicon Valley consultants call it Web 2.0, as if it were a new version of some old software. But it's really a revolution.
Lev Grossman
Image
Don't take anyone's writing advice too seriously.
Lev Grossman
Image
Some of the comments on YouTube make you weep for the future of humanity just for the spelling alone, never mind the obscenity and the naked hatred.
Lev Grossman
Image
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
Image
It's natural for a child to assume that his or her own childhood is unremarkable.
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
Image
I mean, when you're tired of book reviews, you're tired of life.
Lev Grossman
Image
People - me included - want to get excited about books. Good books are a good thing.
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
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
You don’t learn about yourself by being alone, you learn about yourself from other people.
Lev Grossman
Image
Supposedly I've got traces of an English accent, though I can't hear it. I must have inherited it from my mother, who's English, and then I think it was exacerbated by the fact that I live with an Australian.
Lev Grossman
Image
It's very important, at least to me as a writer, that there be some rules on the table when I'm writing. Rules come from genres. You're writing in a genre, there are rules, which is great because then you can break the rules. That's when really exciting things happen.
Lev Grossman
Image
The truth doesn't always make a good story, does it?
Lev Grossman
Image
Magic is wild, dangerous stuff. You never realize how useful limitations are until it's much too late.
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
His whole personality was like an elaborate joke that he never stopped telling.
Lev Grossman
Image
Read everything. If you haven't read everything, you'll never be able to write anything.
Lev Grossman
Image
There is really no end to life's little humiliations.
Lev Grossman