Lev Grossman Quotes - Page 4

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• I got my heart's desire, and there my troubles began.

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  Relationship, Heart, Desire

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• We have lived too long. The great days are past.

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  Past, Long, Great Day

  Lev Grossman (2015). “The Magicians Trilogy”, p.243, Penguin

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• The truth doesn't always make a good story, does it?

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  Doe, Stories, Good Story

  Lev Grossman (2009). “The Magicians: A Novel”, p.378, Penguin

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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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  Weekend, Espresso, Six

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• 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.

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  Book, Knuckles, Internet

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• The problem with growing up is that once you're grown up, the people who aren't grown up aren't fun anymore.

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  Growing Up, Fun, People

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• Being a writer can be isolating. It's good to be among readers and booksellers.

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  Reader, Booksellers

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• It's an engrossing look at the way the flow of information shapes history-as well as a rare glimpse into the soul of the hardcore geek

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  Soul, Glimpse, Looks

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

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  Writing, Able, Havens

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• The idea of some kind of objectively constant, universal literary value is seductive. It feels real. It feels like a stone cold fact that In Search of Lost Time, by Marcel Proust, is better than A Shore Thing, by Snooki. And it may be; Snooki definitely has more one-star reviews on Amazon. But if literary value is real, no one seems to be able to locate it or define it very well. We're increasingly adrift in a grey void of aesthetic relativism.

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  Stars, Real, Ideas

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• I've only read three books by Stephen King. When I was 10 I read 'The Long Walk,' one of his pseudonymous Bachman books. In my early 20s, while trapped on a family vacation, I read 'The Dark Half,' which taught me a word I have never forgotten: psychopomp. Now I have read '11/22/63.'

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  Kings, Book, Dark

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• 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.

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  Book, Men, Jeeves

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

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  Easy, Turns

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• 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

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• 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.

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• 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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• 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.

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  People, Together, Different

  "You — Yes, You — Are TIME's Person of the Year" by Lev Grossman, content.time.com. December 25, 2006.

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• In our world no one ever knows what to do, and everyone's just as clueless and full of crap as everyone else, and you have to figure it all out by yourself. And even after you've figured it out and done it, you'll never know whether you were right or wrong. You'll never know if you put the ring in the right volcano, or if things might have gone better if you hadn't.

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  Life, Clueless, Our World

  Lev Grossman (2015). “The Magicians Trilogy”, p.796, Penguin

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• About as close you can get to the perfect cerebral thriller: searingly smart, ridiculously funny, and fast as hell... I defy anybody to read the first page and not keep going to the last.

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  Smart, Perfect, Pages

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• 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.

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  Hatred, Humanity, Mind

  "You — Yes, You — Are TIME's Person of the Year" by Lev Grossman, content.time.com. December 25, 2006.

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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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  Country, Book, House

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• 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

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• You're saying the gods don't have free will." "The power to make mistakes," Penny said. "Only we have that. Mortals

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  Mistake, Choices, Pennies

  Lev Grossman (2015). “The Magicians Trilogy”, p.533, Penguin

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• She tortured everybody around her, but only because she was more tortured than anyone.

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  Lev Grossman (2015). “The Magicians Trilogy”, p.90, Penguin

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• His whole personality was like an elaborate joke that he never stopped telling.

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  Personality, Whole, Jokes

  Lev Grossman (2015). “The Magicians Trilogy”, p.89, Penguin

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