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Lev Grossman Quotes

Being a writer can be isolating. It’s good to be among readers and booksellers Picture Quote #1

I love rare books. Not that I own a lot of them, mind you. You couldn’t quite call me a rare-book collector. But I did once work in a rare-books library, and I wrote a novel about a rare book Picture Quote #1

My specialty as a collector is books that almost have value. When I love a book, I don’t buy the first edition, because those have become incredibly expensive. But I might buy a beat-up copy of the second edition, third printing, which looks almost exactly the same as the first edition except that a couple of typos have been fixed Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

I’ve drunk Amazon’s free Diet Coke. Nothing makes more sense to me than a company trying to make bookselling into a profitable business. I’m not anti-Amazon, and I’m not pro-publishers either. I’m pro-books Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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Give a nerd enough time and a door he can close and he can figure out pretty much anything Picture Quote #1

I used to write in a local coffee shop, but there was another guy, another writer, who kept sitting in my favorite seat. I would show up, and he would be there, and I would get exiled to a couch or something, and it would throw me off my game Picture Quote #1

The year after I graduated college I had a job in a library. When people underlined passages in the library books, or made notes in the margins, the books were sent to me. I erased the lines and the notes. Yes, that was my job Picture Quote #1

It’s no longer possible to simply build English country houses out of words, because they’ve already been so thoroughly described that all the applicable words have been used up, and one is forced to build them instead out of words recycled and scavenged from other descriptions of other country houses Picture Quote #1

I’ve stayed in houses that were in the country, and in England, but I’m still not sure that I’ve stayed in an English country house Picture Quote #1

I’ve only read three books by Stephen King. When I was 10 I read ‘The Long Walk,’ one of his pseudonymous Bachman books. In my early 20s, while trapped on a family vacation, I read ‘The Dark Half,’ which taught me a word I have never forgotten: psychopomp. Now I have read 11/22/63.’ Picture Quote #1

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He wasn’t surprised. He was used to this anticlimactic feeling, where by the time you’ve done all the work to get something you don’t even want it anymore Picture Quote #1

When I got to college I simply decided that I could speak French, because I just could not spend any more time in French classes. I went ahead and took courses on French literature, some of them even taught in French Picture Quote #1

I’m not a Dickens guy. In grad school I had to take at least one course on the Victorians, so I took The Later Dickens, because that was what there was Picture Quote #1

It’s a great thing when you feel that you recognize yourself, deeply and movingly, in a work of literature Picture Quote #1

The novel is a highly corrupt medium, after all - in the end the vast majority of them simply aren’t that great, and are destined to be forgotten Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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The real world is horrible Picture Quote #1

I think every fantasy reader secretly believes they know how magic works Picture Quote #1

I got my heart’s desire, and there my troubles began Picture Quote #1

We have lived too long. The great days are past Picture Quote #1

The truth doesn’t always make a good story, does it? Picture Quote #1

It’s time to live with what we have and mourn what we lost Picture Quote #1

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The process of learning is a nonstop orgy of wonderment Picture Quote #1

His whole personality was like an elaborate joke that he never stopped telling Picture Quote #1

Being brave was easy when you would rather die than give up Picture Quote #1

Careful what you hunt, lest you catch it Picture Quote #1

He who completes a quest does not merely find something. He becomes something Picture Quote #1

She tortured everybody around her, but only because she was more tortured than anyone Picture Quote #1

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Being a writer can be isolating. It’s good to be among readers and booksellers. (Lev Grossman Quotes) I love rare books. Not that I own a lot of them, mind you. You couldn’t quite call me a rare-book collector. But I did once work in a rare-books library, and I wrote a novel about a rare book. (Lev Grossman Quotes) My specialty as a collector is books that almost have value. When I love a book, I don’t buy the first edition, because those have become incredibly expensive. But I might buy a beat-up copy of the second edition, third printing, which looks almost exactly the same as the first edition except that a couple of typos have been fixed. (Lev Grossman Quotes) 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. (Lev Grossman Quotes) I’ve drunk Amazon’s free Diet Coke. Nothing makes more sense to me than a company trying to make bookselling into a profitable business. I’m not anti-Amazon, and I’m not pro-publishers either. I’m pro-books. (Lev Grossman Quotes) 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. (Lev Grossman Quotes) Give a nerd enough time and a door he can close and he can figure out pretty much anything (Lev Grossman Quotes) I used to write in a local coffee shop, but there was another guy, another writer, who kept sitting in my favorite seat. I would show up, and he would be there, and I would get exiled to a couch or something, and it would throw me off my game. (Lev Grossman Quotes) The year after I graduated college I had a job in a library. When people underlined passages in the library books, or made notes in the margins, the books were sent to me. I erased the lines and the notes. Yes, that was my job. (Lev Grossman Quotes) It’s no longer possible to simply build English country houses out of words, because they’ve already been so thoroughly described that all the applicable words have been used up, and one is forced to build them instead out of words recycled and scavenged from other descriptions of other country houses. (Lev Grossman Quotes) I’ve stayed in houses that were in the country, and in England, but I’m still not sure that I’ve stayed in an English country house. (Lev Grossman Quotes) I’ve only read three books by Stephen King. When I was 10 I read ‘The Long Walk,’ one of his pseudonymous Bachman books. In my early 20s, while trapped on a family vacation, I read ‘The Dark Half,’ which taught me a word I have never forgotten: psychopomp. Now I have read 11/22/63.’ (Lev Grossman Quotes) He wasn’t surprised. He was used to this anticlimactic feeling, where by the time you’ve done all the work to get something you don’t even want it anymore. (Lev Grossman Quotes) When I got to college I simply decided that I could speak French, because I just could not spend any more time in French classes. I went ahead and took courses on French literature, some of them even taught in French. (Lev Grossman Quotes) I’m not a Dickens guy. In grad school I had to take at least one course on the Victorians, so I took The Later Dickens, because that was what there was. (Lev Grossman Quotes) It’s a great thing when you feel that you recognize yourself, deeply and movingly, in a work of literature. (Lev Grossman Quotes) The novel is a highly corrupt medium, after all - in the end the vast majority of them simply aren’t that great, and are destined to be forgotten. (Lev Grossman Quotes) 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. (Lev Grossman Quotes) The real world is horrible (Lev Grossman Quotes) I think every fantasy reader secretly believes they know how magic works (Lev Grossman Quotes) I got my heart’s desire, and there my troubles began (Lev Grossman Quotes) We have lived too long. The great days are past (Lev Grossman Quotes) The truth doesn’t always make a good story, does it? (Lev Grossman Quotes) It’s time to live with what we have and mourn what we lost (Lev Grossman Quotes) The process of learning is a nonstop orgy of wonderment (Lev Grossman Quotes) His whole personality was like an elaborate joke that he never stopped telling (Lev Grossman Quotes) Being brave was easy when you would rather die than give up (Lev Grossman Quotes) Careful what you hunt, lest you catch it (Lev Grossman Quotes) He who completes a quest does not merely find something. He becomes something (Lev Grossman Quotes) She tortured everybody around her, but only because she was more tortured than anyone (Lev Grossman Quotes)

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