Quotes by : Lev Grossman

Language and reality are kept strictly apart—reality is tough, unyielding stuff, and it doesn’t care....

The idea of some kind of objectively constant, universal literary value is seductive. It feels real.....

In a way fighting was just like using magic. You said the words, and they altered the universe. By merely....

I can’t overstate how little I knew about myself at 22, or how little I’d thought about what I was....

It didn't matter where you were, if you were in a room full of books you were at least halfway home.

Quentin was thin and tall, though he habitually hunched his shoulders in a vain attempt to brace himself....

You just had to get some idea of what matters and what doesn't, and how much, and try not to be scared....

A magician is strong because he feels pain. He feels the difference between what the world is and what....

I’ve learned that the creative life may or may not be the apex of human civilization, but either way....

She was the most beautiful, terrible thing he'd ever seen, like an acetylene flame, an incandescent filament,....