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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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“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

“A magician is strong because he feels the pain between what the world is and what he would make of it.”

World Feels Pain Strong Magician

Book:The Magicians Trilogy

Source: The Magicians Trilogy

“Maybe there's a sense that technology isn't necessarily the answer to a lot of our problems. Fantasy offers readers a less radically alienated world - a world where desires and feelings that normally are trapped inside your mind are made real in the form of magic.”

World Mind Made Real Feelings Problem Form Desire Answers Technology Fantasy Magic Reader Offers Trapped

Author:Lev Grossman

“A magician is strong because he feels pain. He feels the difference between what the world is and what he would make of it. Or what did you think that stuff in your chest was? A magician is strong because he hurts more than others. His wound is his strength.”

Thinking World Feels Pain Strong Stuff Differences Hurt Wounds Chests Magician

Book:The Magicians Trilogy

Source: The Magicians Trilogy

“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

“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.”

People World Moving Dies Can Do Alive Magic Empty Blind Longing Bored Blank

Book:The Magicians: A Novel

Source: The Magicians: A Novel

“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.”

World Real Realizing Interesting Expectations Meaningful Real World Brighter

Author:Lev Grossman

“Magic: it was what happened when the mind met the world, and the mind won for a change.”

World Mind Happened Magic Mets

Book:The Magicians Trilogy

Source: The Magicians Trilogy

“Quentin had an obsolete sailing ship that had been raised from the dead. He had psychotically effective swordsman and an enigmatic witch-queen. It wasn't the Fellowship of the Ring, but then again he wasn't trying to save the world from Sauron, he was trying to perform a tax audit on a bunch of hick islanders.”

World Trying Taxes Raised Rings Bunch Ships Queens Witch Sailing Fellowship Obsolete Save The World Quentin Fellowship Of The Ring Enigmatic Sailing Ships Hicks Swordsman Sauron

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

“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!”

World Figures Convinced Obsessed Contentment Crap Bothered Other Worlds

Book:The Magicians Trilogy

Source: The Magicians Trilogy

“In our world no one ever knows what to do, and everyone's just as clueless and full of crap as everyone else, and you have to figure it all out by yourself. And even after you've figured it out and done it, you'll never know whether you were right or wrong. You'll never know if you put the ring in the right volcano, or if things might have gone better if you hadn't.”

Ifs Knows World Life Done Might Gone Figures Rings Our World Crap Volcanoes Clueless

Book:The Magicians Trilogy

Source: The Magicians Trilogy

“The real world is horrible.”

World Real Horrible Real World

Author:Lev Grossman

About the Author

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

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The Magicians TrilogyRelated source material

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