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The hardest thing about being an unpublished writer is that there's always that voice in your head that asks if you're really being a fool.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 just wanted to play as long as I could. When you stop playing, you're not going to get it back. When you don't enjoy it, that's the time to pack it in.
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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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The book I always say that influenced me, subconsciously, because at the time I didn't know I wanted to be a writer, was William Goldman's 'Marathon Man.' That was the first adult thriller that I loved. I read it when I was 15 or so, when my father gave it to me.
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The biggest crime of a dictatorship is to eradicate human feelings from people.
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Jazz vision for me is seeing my art in musical term. It offers me an visual expressions in an ever-changing musical palette.
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The further through life I driftThe more obvious it becomes that I am lacking in thrift.
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I did organize something in high school like a school walkout. These kids were locked up in their school, they weren't allowed out, but 3,000 school kids from Sydney walked out and protested. And I organized it from my mom's office at work. And I was 12.
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There's a special gut-check moment the first time you write a scene in which somebody casts a spell.
