Lev Grossman
Lev Grossman
Lev Grossman is an American novelist and journalist, notably the author of the novels Warp, Codex, The Magicians, The Magician King, and The Magician's Land. He is a senior writer and book critic for TIME...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth26 June 1969
CountryUnited States of America
strong pain world
A magician is strong because he feels the pain between what the world is and what he would make of it.
writing able ifs
Read everything. If you haven't read everything, you'll never be able to write anything.
children games bullshit
That’s what death did, it treated you like a child, like everything you had ever thought and done and cared about was just a child’s game, to be crumpled up and thrown away when it was over. It didn’t matter. Death didn’t respect you. Death thought you were bullshit, and it wanted to make sure you knew it.
hero stories relief
Everybody wanted to be the hero of their own story. Nobody wanted to be comic relief.
hero men knowing
Being a hero, the man had observed, is largely a matter of knowing one’s cues.
self-esteem funny-things giving
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.
personality jokes whole
His whole personality was like an elaborate joke that he never stopped telling.
meaningful real interesting
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.
intelligent tree magazines
Josh speculated about the hypothetical contents of an imaginary porn magazine for intelligent trees that would be entitled Enthouse.
moving bored people
Most people are blind to magic. They move thru a blank and empty world. They’re bored with their lives and there’s nothing they can do about it. They’re eaten alive by longing and they’re dead before they die.
errors should bureaucracy
The life I should be living had been mislaid through some clerical error by the cosmic bureaucracy.
crush depressing relief
His crush went from exciting to depressing, as if he'd gone from the first blush of infatuation to the terminal nostalgia of a former lover without even the temporary relief of an actual relationship in between.
strong contradiction weak
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.
order numbers interesting
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.