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Lev Grossman
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: June 26
Journalist
Literary Critic
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
Lexington
Massachusetts
Easy
Something
Compete
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Free

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Do you promise to hate my parents as much as I do? Oh, absolutely, Quentin said. Maybe even more.
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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.
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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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I mean, when you're tired of book reviews, you're tired of life.
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A magician is strong because he feels the pain between what the world is and what he would make of it.
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The line between outside and inside is fuzzier in fantasy. Maybe that's something people are looking for.
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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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A novel with a bad middle is a bad book. A bad ending is something I've just gotten in the habit of forgiving.
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I got my heart's desire, and there my troubles began.
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Read everything. If you haven't read everything, you'll never be able to write anything.
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That was the thing about the world: it wasn't that things were harder than you thought they were going to be, it was that they were hard in ways that you didn't expect.
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A big silvery janitor. Penny, this can’t be how the universe works.” “In the Order we call it ‘inverse profundity.’ We’ve observed it in any number of cases. The deeper you go into the cosmic mysteries, the less interesting everything gets.
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The truth doesn't always make a good story, does it?
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Until now, I've been a kind of binge-writer - I'll carve out five or six hours on a weekend day and make a large container of espresso and just bang out a lot of words.
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As a writer I'm more drawn to villains who are just slightly mad.
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