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
thinking firsts strange
I read Susanna Clarke's Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell, which I think will subsequently be recognized as one of the first great novels of the 21st century.
reader booksellers
Being a writer can be isolating. It's good to be among readers and booksellers.
book way lucky
Book tours are excellent things, and one is lucky to get to go on one, but they have a way of leeching away one's will to live.
thanks publishing stills
I'm happy to report that 'The New Press' is still in business to this day. But not thanks to me. I was a really bad publishing intern.
book home kids
I always hated those fantasy books where, at the end, all the kids had to go home. At the end of a Narnia book, you always got shown the door. Same with The Wizard Of Oz and The Phantom Tollbooth. You get kicked out of your magic land. It's like, "By the way, here's your next surprise: You get to go home!" And the kids are all like, "Yay, we get to go home!" I never bought that. Did anybody buy that?
book mean tired
I mean, when you're tired of book reviews, you're tired of life.
book people want
People - me included - want to get excited about books. Good books are a good thing.
hate parent promise
Do you promise to hate my parents as much as I do?" "Oh, absolutely," Quentin said. "Maybe even more.
healthy world way
Escapism has value, even if I don't know what its value is, exactly. Maybe it's just part of some healthy way that we deal with the world.
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.
writing able ifs
Read everything. If you haven't read everything, you'll never be able to write anything.
book contemporary-fiction stuff
The main advantage of being a reviewer is that you read a lot. A lot of books get sent to you, and you have an amazing vantage point from which to observe what's going on in contemporary fiction - not only genre stuff, the whole spectrum.
hatred humanity mind
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.
smart perfect pages
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.