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
mind magic world
Magic: it was what happened when the mind met the world, and the mind won for a change.
hero brave should
Maybe this was one of those times when being a hero didn’t involve looking particularly brave. It was just doing what you should.
doe quests
He who completes a quest does not merely find something. He becomes something.
careful hunts
Careful what you hunt, lest you catch it.
crush dog song
She still had her bad days, no question, when the black dog of depression sniffed her out and settled its crushing weight on her chest and breathed its pungent dog breath in her face. On those days she called in sick to the IT shop where, most days, she untangled tangled networks for a song. On those days she pulled down the shades and ran dark for twelve or twenty-four or seventy-two hours, however long it took for the black dog to go on home to its dark master.
feelings want done
He wasn't surprised. He was used to this anticlimactic feeling, where by the time you've done all the work to get something you don't even want it anymore.
giving-up brave easy
Being brave was easy when you would rather die than give up.
ignorance neglect rulers
We have reached the point where ignorance and neglect are the best we can hope for in a ruler.
current figure guess healthier literary publishers retailers run
Which is the healthier kind of literary diversity: an un-gate-kept self-published book world, run substantially through Amazon? Or our current book world, which is part-gate-kept, part-not, with many different publishers and retailers and platforms? I'm not smart enough to figure it out, but if I had to guess I'd guess the latter.
beats complete face history humility true
When it comes to true humility in the face of history, nothing beats complete silence.
given novels
I started thinking about the endings of novels not because I think endings are so important, but because I think they're actually not as important as they're sometimes given credit for.
guy mark
I got my first whiff of what big-time adult literature was all about when I was in 8th grade. I got it from Mark Linn-Baker. You know - the guy from 'Perfect Strangers.'
call love mind novel quite rare work wrote
I love rare books. Not that I own a lot of them, mind you. You couldn't quite call me a rare-book collector. But I did once work in a rare-books library, and I wrote a novel about a rare book.
attached devoted felt fiction punished science stigma
Growing up in the '70s and '80s, science fiction and especially fantasy had such a stigma attached to them. I felt so punished and exiled for being devoted to these things.