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
country book house
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.
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.
literature feels great-things
It's a great thing when you feel that you recognize yourself, deeply and movingly, in a work of literature.
book forgiving habit
A novel with a bad middle is a bad book. A bad ending is something I've just gotten in the habit of forgiving.
writing magician sequels
I never thought about doing a sequel when I was actually writing 'The Magicians.' I only ever considered it a standalone.
littles ends humiliation
There is really no end to life's little humiliations.
mad villain
As a writer I'm more drawn to villains who are just slightly mad.
other-worlds contentment obsessed
You're all so obsessed with other worlds, you're so convinced that this one is crap and everywhere else is great, but you've never bothered to figure out what's going on here!
annoyed enough should
By now he had learned enough to know that when he was getting annoyed at somebody else, it was usually because there was something that he himself should be doing, and he wasn't doing it.
expectations way world
That was the thing about the world: it wasn't that things were harder than you thought they were going to be, it was that they were hard in ways that you didn't expect.
doubt serial-killer killers
I have no doubt there are magician psychopaths, and magician serial killers. I doubt Brakebills admissions is very good at screening for those.
book home matter
It didn’t matter where you were, if you were in a room full of books you were at least halfway home.
writing advice writing-advice
Don't take anyone's writing advice too seriously.
loss lost mourn
It's time to live with what we have and mourn what we lost.