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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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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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The hardest thing about being an unpublished writer is that there's always that voice in your head that asks if you're really being a fool.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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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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Autumn in New York, why does it seem so inviting?
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My desire has always been to be the leader in an industry.
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I've never seen a movement spread as fast as the fossil fuel divestment movement.
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India I have visited a great many times, though there is a lot about it I will never understand.
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Especially in the world of fantasy and superheroes, it's great to have role models that aren't in skimpy little outfits, in impossible poses. That's so important for young women.
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The first time I voted, I voted for Eugene McCarthy and I knew he wouldn't win, but it felt so great to vote for him, to vote for the right guy - the one who wanted peace.
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We are shrinking the size of the federal government as a percent of our economy from over 21 percent of the economy to 19 percent of the economy. At the same time, we're growing the private economy.
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When you're on stage, the real world just drops away for that time. It's pretty intense.
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There's a special gut-check moment the first time you write a scene in which somebody casts a spell.
