Lev Grossman Quotes About Writing

Quotes about: Writing

• Fanfiction is what literature might look like if it were reinvented from scratch after a nuclear apocalypse by a band of brilliant pop-culture junkies trapped in a sealed bunker. They don't do it for money. That's not what it's about. The writers write it and put it up online just for the satisfaction. They're fans, but they're not silent, couchbound consumers of media. The culture talks to them, and they talk back to the culture in its own language.

  Lev Grossman

  Writing, Media, Literature

• Don't take anyone's writing advice too seriously.

  Lev Grossman

  Writing, Advice, Writing Advice

• 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.

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  Writing, Important, Tables

  Interview with Todd VanDerWerff, www.avclub.com. August 8, 2011.

• Read everything. If you haven't read everything, you'll never be able to write anything.

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  Writing, Able, Havens

• I never thought about doing a sequel when I was actually writing 'The Magicians.' I only ever considered it a standalone.

  Lev Grossman

  Writing, Magician, Sequels

• I used to write in a local coffee shop, but there was another guy, another writer, who kept sitting in my favorite seat. I would show up, and he would be there, and I would get exiled to a couch or something, and it would throw me off my game.

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  Coffee, Writing, Games

  "The Exchange: Lev Grossman" by Andrea Walkman, www.newyorker.com. August 27, 2009.

• Nothing is wrong with you. You're not different. Everybody feels as bad as you do: this is just what writing a novel feels like. To write a novel is to come in contact with raw, primal feelings, hopes and longings and psychic wounds, and try to make a big public word-sculpture out of them, and that is a crazy hard thing to do.

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  Crazy, Writing, Psychics

• One already feels like an anachronism, writing novels in the age of what-ever-this-is-the-age-of, but touring to promote them feels doubly anachronistic. The marketplace is showing an increasing intolerance for the time-honored practice of printing information on paper and shipping it around the country.

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  Country, Writing, Practice

• More than fantasy or even science fiction, Ray Bradbury wrote horror, and like so many great horror writers he was himself utterly without fear, of anything. He wasn't afraid of looking uncool - he wasn't scared to openly love innocence, or to be optimistic, or to write sentimentally when he felt that way.

  Lev Grossman

  Writing, Optimistic, Fiction

• There's a special gut-check moment the first time you write a scene in which somebody casts a spell.

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  Writing, Special, Firsts

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