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Lev Grossman Quotes

Wasn’t there a spell for making yourself happy? Somebody must have invented one. How could he have missed it? Why didn’t they teach it? Was it in the library, a flying book fluttering just out of reach, beating its wings against some high window? Picture Quote #1

We have reached the point where ignorance and neglect are the best we can hope for in a ruler Picture Quote #1

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

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 Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

Maybe this was one of those times when being a hero didn’t involve looking particularly brave. It was just doing what you should Picture Quote #1

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Stop looking for the next secret door that is going to lead you to your real life. Stop waiting. This is it: there’s nothing else Picture Quote #1

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! Picture Quote #1

It didn’t matter where you were, if you were in a room full of books you were at least halfway home Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

You don’t learn about yourself by being alone, you learn about yourself from other people Picture Quote #1

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My ultimate goal is to drive people back to the books, when I think of an adaptation Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

It’s very important, at least to me as a writer, that there be some rules on the table when I’m writing. Rules come from genres. You’re writing in a genre, there are rules, which is great because then you can break the rules. That’s when really exciting things happen 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

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

Read everything. If you haven’t read everything, you’ll never be able to write anything Picture Quote #1

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A magician is strong because he feels the pain between what the world is and what he would make of it Picture Quote #1

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Wasn’t there a spell for making yourself happy? Somebody must have invented one. How could he have missed it? Why didn’t they teach it? Was it in the library, a flying book fluttering just out of reach, beating its wings against some high window? (Lev Grossman Quotes) We have reached the point where ignorance and neglect are the best we can hope for in a ruler (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) 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 (Lev Grossman Quotes) 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 (Lev Grossman Quotes) Maybe this was one of those times when being a hero didn’t involve looking particularly brave. It was just doing what you should (Lev Grossman Quotes) Stop looking for the next secret door that is going to lead you to your real life. Stop waiting. This is it: there’s nothing else (Lev Grossman Quotes) 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! (Lev Grossman Quotes) It didn’t matter where you were, if you were in a room full of books you were at least halfway home (Lev Grossman Quotes) 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 (Lev Grossman Quotes) 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 (Lev Grossman Quotes) You don’t learn about yourself by being alone, you learn about yourself from other people (Lev Grossman Quotes) My ultimate goal is to drive people back to the books, when I think of an adaptation (Lev Grossman Quotes) 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 (Lev Grossman Quotes) It’s very important, at least to me as a writer, that there be some rules on the table when I’m writing. Rules come from genres. You’re writing in a genre, there are rules, which is great because then you can break the rules. That’s when really exciting things happen (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) 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) Read everything. If you haven’t read everything, you’ll never be able to write anything (Lev Grossman Quotes) A magician is strong because he feels the pain between what the world is and what he would make of it (Lev Grossman Quotes)

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