I loved fantasy, but I particularly loved the stories in which somebody got out of where they were and into somewhere better - as in the Chronicles Of Narnia, The Wizard Of Oz, The Phantom Tollbooth, the Dungeons & Dragons cartoon.
She tortured everybody around her, but only because she was more tortured than anyone. - Lev Grossman
She tortured everybody around her, but only because she was more tortured than anyone.
- Lev Grossman
Fanfiction is what literature might look like if it were reinvented from scratch after a nuclear apocalypse by a band of brilliant pop-culture junkie… - Lev Grossman
Fanfiction is what literature might look like if it were reinvented from scratch after a nuclear apocalypse by a band of brilliant pop-culture junkie…
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… - Lev Grossman
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 get the quest you wanted, you got the one you could do. - Lev Grossman
You didn’t get the quest you wanted, you got the one you could do.
If there's a single lesson that life teaches us, it's that wishing doesn't make it so. - Lev Grossman
If there's a single lesson that life teaches us, it's that wishing doesn't make it so.
Don't take anyone's writing advice too seriously. - Lev Grossman
Don't take anyone's writing advice too seriously.
He who completes a quest does not merely find something. He becomes something. - Lev Grossman
He who completes a quest does not merely find something. He becomes something.
You don’t learn about yourself by being alone, you learn about yourself from other people. - Lev Grossman
You don’t learn about yourself by being alone, you learn about yourself from other people.
It didn’t matter where you were, if you were in a room full of books you were at least halfway home. - Lev Grossman
It didn’t matter where you were, if you were in a room full of books you were at least halfway home.
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