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.
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…
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.
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.
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…
Don't take anyone's writing advice too seriously. - Lev Grossman
Don't take anyone's writing advice too seriously.
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.
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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