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
believe thinking magic
I think every fantasy reader secretly believes they know how magic works.
moving needs want
You don't want to move toward some utopian literary situation where everybody's free of all conventions. That's ridiculous! Conventions are what you need. You have nothing to break down if you don't have conventions.
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.
intelligent tree magazines
Josh speculated about the hypothetical contents of an imaginary porn magazine for intelligent trees that would be entitled Enthouse.
personality jokes whole
His whole personality was like an elaborate joke that he never stopped telling.
play numbers unbroken
It's wonderful to play around with fantasy, because there are an amazing number of as-yet-unbroken rules out there.
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.
past play way
The danger would be going back, or staying still. The only way out was through. The past was ruins, but the present was still in play.
college long littles
I studied the cello for a long time, from when I was little up through college.
nerd paper fans
I recognize that on paper, you can't really tell that I'm a fan or a nerd.
bored age young
And I'm not as young as I once was. At my age, I don't have time to be bored.
attitude book sacred
Becoming an author changes your attitude too. Once you see where books come from, and how they're made, they never seem quite as sacred again.