Lev Grossman Quotes

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 on Saturday morning in the '80s.

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• I've got plenty of quirks. I go to an office early in the morning. Early in the morning is really good writing time. I take anywhere between six to eight showers a day. I'm not exaggerating. I'm not a germaphobe: it's all about a fresh start.

  

  Aaron Sorkin
  • Time
  • Good
  • Writing

• A play is much easier to maintain your personal life with because if you're rehearsing, you're working like from 11 to 6 or 11 to 5 and you get to have your whole morning and your whole evening. When you're doing the play, you have all day.

  

  Maggie Gyllenhaal
  • Life
  • Day
  • Morning

• I'm an early-morning owl.

  

  Patrick Wilson
  • Morning
  • Owl

• I get the 'The New York Times' and 'Los Angeles Times' thrown at my door every morning. I'll read the front page of 'The New York Times,' then the op-eds, then scan the arts section and then the sports section. Then I do the same with the 'L.A. Times.'

  

  Aaron Sorkin
  • Morning
  • Sports
  • Door

• I'm a really heavy sleeper. When I wake up I'm a terrible morning person.

  

  Flume
  • Up
  • Morning
  • Person

• I do think Jesus would skip church on Sunday morning and instead visit the nursing homes and retirement homes where so many have abandoned their loved ones.

  

  Taylor Negron
  • Church
  • Morning
  • Jesus

• I feel the art world in New York has a stronger following than Britain. If you go to a New York art district on a Saturday morning, it will be so busy with families and openings - art is much more ingrained in the culture.

  

  Sam Taylor-Wood
  • World
  • Art
  • Culture

• Ever since the morning of May 29, 1953, when Tenzing Norgay and I became the first climbers to step onto the summit of Mount Everest, I've been called a great adventurer.

  

  Edmund Hillary
  • Great
  • May
  • Morning

• My brain is so anxiety-prone, like a pinball machine. If I don't get up in the morning and focus my thinking, my breathing, and my being for about 12 minutes, I'm just a screwball all day long.

  

  Rainn Wilson
  • Up
  • Thinking
  • Long

• We were big Saturday Night Live and Eddie Murphy fans.

  

  Illeana Douglas
  • Live
  • Night
  • Saturday

• The quality of life is so much higher anyplace you can ski in the morning and surf in the evening - there's something to be said for that.

  

  Ian Somerhalder
  • Life
  • Morning
  • Quality

• The attorney general would call at 5 o'clock in the evening and say: 'Tomorrow morning we are going to try to integrate the University of Mississippi. Get us a memo on what we're likely to do, and what we can do if the governor sends the National Guard there.'

  

  Harold H. Greene
  • Morning
  • Tomorrow
  • Evening

• In a real dark night of the soul, it is always three o'clock in the morning, day after day.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Real
  • Soul
  • Night

• He who stands with his face to the East in the morning will have the sun before him. If he does not change his posture, the Earth in the meantime having changed its, he will have the sun no longer before him, but behind.

  

  Daniel De Leon
  • Earth
  • Change
  • Morning

• The problem with marriage is that it ends every night after making love, and it must be rebuilt every morning before breakfast.

  

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  • Love
  • Night
  • Morning

• A real New Yorker likes the sound of a garbage truck in the morning.

  

  R. L. Stine
  • Real
  • Morning
  • Sound

• I can only tell you that eggs, country ham, biscuits, a pot of coffee, a morning paper, a table by the window overlooking the veranda and putting green, listening to the idle chitchat of competitors, authors, wits and philosophers, hasn't exactly been a torturous way to begin each day at the Masters all these years.

  

  Dan Jenkins
  • Country
  • Day
  • Morning

• I'd always been a news junkie, always read lots of newspapers and watched the Sunday morning news shows on TV and felt strongly about issues of power, control, sexuality and race.

  

  Barbara Kruger
  • Power
  • Control
  • Morning

• I would love to make a bunch of country demos and write country songs for really great country singers.

  

  Kathleen Hanna Bikini Kill
  • Great
  • Country

• You know, I said I have this problem that I need to more carefully read Akron's text because it's too much, too much fantasy, and so I am busy with other stuff - it's funny, it's nice to hear that someone is studying that carefully and now I know a little bit more about that.

  

  H. R. Giger
  • Funny
  • Nice
  • Problem

• If you're not yourself, who will be?

  

  Sabrina Ward Harrison
  • Ifs

• Eroticism, hallucinogenic drugs, nuclear science, Gaudi's Gothic architecture, my love of gold - there is a common denominator in all of it: God is present in everything. The same magic is at the heart of all things, and all roads lead to the same revelation: we are children of God, and the entire universe tends towards the perfection of mankind.

  

  Salvador Dali
  • God
  • Science
  • Universe

• 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 on Saturday morning in the '80s.

  

  Lev Grossman
  • Morning
  • Saturday