Lev Grossman Quotes
There's a special gut-check moment the first time you write a scene in which somebody casts a spell.
Quotes to Explore
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I wasn't a visionary but I literally had my finger on the pulse of the women of America.
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A writer is a human being. He has to live with a sense of honor.
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Prior to the Civil War, most libraries were either privately owned or housed in universities or churches.
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When companies get big, they slow down. They're not as exciting. If you want to get something done, it takes a lot of time and a lot of meetings.
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I idolised bands like Pearl Jam and Smashing Pumpkins, who wanted to reach as many people as they could.
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I believe the answers to most problems that confront us around the world can and should be approached by engaging both friend and foe in dialogue. No, I don't naively think that dialogue always works, but I believe we should avoid the rigidity of saying that dialogue never works.
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The less you have, the more you enjoy.
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I look a hundred and weigh 110 – you won't love me when you see the wreck England has made me.
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We don't think that we are in a quarrel with anybody. We may have a difference of opinion, but we'll not allow such differences of opinion to grow into a problem that stands in the way of reconstructing the country and regaining the democratic path.
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The hardest thing about being an unpublished writer is that there's always that voice in your head that asks if you're really being a fool. You might just really stink and not know it. You have to have a lot of blind faith in the process. You have to like it so much that you're going to do it anyway.
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You can take the boy out of Bombay; you can't take Bombay out of the boy, you know.
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Often when I feel I am reaching a saturation point in my performances, I think of coming back to NSD and attending workshops.
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I've never had any desire to be good. I don't like goodness particularly.
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I think Mickey Gall's going to be really good.
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It's my father's legacy. My father's view was that the public is the employer of these government employees and has the right to know what they're up to.
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I keep threatening to keep a formal journal, but whenever I start one it instantly becomes an exercise in self-consciousness. Instead of a journal I manage to have dozens of notebooks with bits and pieces of stories, poems, and notes. Almost every thing I do has its beginning in a notebook of some sort, usually written on a bus or train.
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I think songwriting is the ultimate form of being able to make anything that happens in your life productive.
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Love is a great emotion, but I believe it's not just about romance; it could be love for nature, people, for relationships.
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No. I am not a royalist. Not at all. I am definitely a republican in the British sense of the word. I just don't see the use of the monarchy though I'm fierce patriot. I'm proud proud proud of being English, but I think the monarchy symbolizes a lot of what was wrong with the country.
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A rolling stone gathers no moss, but it gains a certain polish.
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Diets are for those who are thick and tired of it.
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Abraham Lincoln is singular. Abraham Lincoln, before he was killed, stood up and, you know, for the first time from any sitting president, stood for the right for suffrage for African-American men who had served in the Civil War. And that's a limited suffrage, but it was quite radical at the time.
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My favorite film of all time is 'Raising Arizona.' I watched it again as soon as it was over. I had it on VHS, rented it, and I watched it and said, 'I want to watch that again, right now.' I think I did the same with something like 'Goodfellas,' which is a completely different genre.
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There's a special gut-check moment the first time you write a scene in which somebody casts a spell.
