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

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

You didn’t get the quest you wanted, you got the one you could do.

- Lev Grossman

If there's a single lesson that life teaches us, it's that wishing doesn't make it so.

- Lev Grossman

Don't take anyone's writing advice too seriously.

- Lev Grossman

He who completes a quest does not merely find something. He becomes something.

- Lev Grossman

You don’t learn about yourself by being alone, you learn about yourself from other people.

- Lev Grossman

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

- Lev Grossman