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Lev Grossman is an American novelist, best known for his fantasy novel series 'The Magicians'. His works blend literary depth with rich imagination, earning him widespread acclaim.

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“I feel that's one of the central questions of fantasy. What did we lose when we entered the 20th and 21st century, and how can we mourn what we lost, and what can we replace it with? We're still asking those questions in an urgent way.”

Way Feels Stills Lost Loses Fantasy Century Asking 21st Century Urgent Mourn

Author:Lev Grossman

“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?”

Way Book Ends Home Kids Next Fantasy Doors Magic Land Surprise Hated Wizards Phantoms Narnia Fantasy Books Phantom Tollbooth Yay

Author:Lev Grossman

“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.”

Ifs Knows World Way Values Deals Healthy Escapism

Author:Lev Grossman

“It's an engrossing look at the way the flow of information shapes history-as well as a rare glimpse into the soul of the hardcore geek”

Way Wells Looks Soul Information Shapes Flow Glimpse Geek Hardcore

Author:Lev Grossman

“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.”

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Author:Lev Grossman

“I came from an anxious, overly intense East Coast academic family. That was the way of our tribe.”

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“Every year the literary press praises dozens if not hundreds of novels to the skies, asserting explicitly or implicitly that these books will probably not be suffering water damage in the basements of their authors' houses 20 years from now. But historically, anyway, that's not the way the novelistic ecology works.”

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“When I was 35 I realized that I was still thinking a lot about what it would be like to go to Narnia. To really go - not just in a daydream, or in a children's book, but what it would actually feel like, physically, psychologically, every other way. The idea was haunting me.”

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Author:Lev Grossman

“Most people carry that pain around inside them their whole lives, until they kill the pain by other means, or until it kills them. But you, my friends, you found another way: a way to use the pain. To burn it as fuel, for light and warmth. You have learned to break the world that has tried to break you.”

People World Way Mean Whole Use Light Pain Found Break Strength My Friends Whole Life Fuel Warmth Another Way

Book:The Magicians: A Novel

Source: The Magicians: A Novel

“In a way fighting was just like using magic. You said the words, and they altered the universe. By merely speaking you could create damage and pain, cause tears to fall, drive people away, make yourself feel better, make your life worse.”

People Way Feels Said Pain Fall Fighting Universe Causes Magic Tears Damage Feel Better Altered

Book:The Magicians Trilogy

Source: The Magicians Trilogy

“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.”

Way Stills Play Would Be Past Danger Ruins Staying

Book:The Magicians Trilogy

Source: The Magicians Trilogy

“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.”

World Way Hard Expectations Harder

Book:The Magicians Trilogy

Source: The Magicians Trilogy

“More than fantasy or even science fiction, Ray Bradbury wrote horror, and like so many great horror writers he was himself utterly without fear, of anything. He wasn't afraid of looking uncool - he wasn't scared to openly love innocence, or to be optimistic, or to write sentimentally when he felt that way.”

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Author:Lev Grossman

About the Author

Born: June 26, 1969
Known for: Novelist
Quotes: 173

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