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Lev Grossman (born June 26, 1969 in Concord, Massachusetts) is an American novelist and journalist, most notable as the author of the Magicians trilogy: The Magicians (2009), The Magician King (2011), and The Magician's Land (2014). He was the book critic and lead technology writer at Time magazine from 2002 through 2016.

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Fanfiction is what literature might look like if it were reinvented from scratch after a nuclear apocalypse by a band of brilliant pop-culture junkies trapped in a sealed bunker. They don't do it for money. That's not what it's about. The writers write it and put it up online just for the satisfaction. They're fans, but they're not silent, couchbound consumers of media. The culture talks to them, and they talk back to the culture in its own language.

Writing, Media, Satisfaction, Like, Brilliant

How often have I met and disliked writers whose books I love; and conversely, hated the books and then wound up liking the writer? Too often.

Book, Hated, Mets, Wound, Writer

As a teenager in Brooklyn Quentin had often imagined himself engaged in martial heroics, but after this he knew, as a cold immutable fact, that he would do anything necessary, sacrificing whatever or whomever he had to, to avoid risking exposure to physical violence. Shame never came into it. He embraced his new identity as a coward. He would run in the other direction. He would lie down and cry and put his arms over his head or play dead. It didn't matter what he had to do, he would do it and be glad.

Fact, Fear, Glad, Lying, Physical, Running

The novel is a highly corrupt medium, after all - in the end the vast majority of them simply aren't that great, and are destined to be forgotten.

Destined, Ends, Forgotten, Majority

Stop looking for the next secret door that is going to lead you to your real life. Stop waiting. This is it: there's nothing else.

Doors, Life, Real, Secret, Stop, Waiting

My ultimate goal is to drive people back to the books, when I think of an adaptation.

Back, Book, People, Think, Thinking

Supposedly I've got traces of an English accent, though I can't hear it. I must have inherited it from my mother, who's English, and then I think it was exacerbated by the fact that I live with an Australian.

Exacerbated, Fact, Facts, Mother, Supposedly, Thinking

The problem with growing up is that once you're grown up, the people who aren't grown up aren't fun anymore.

Anymore, Fun, Growing, Growing Up, People

I feel very conscious of my influences. T. H. White is very important for me.

White, Important, Influence, Influences, Conscious

Josh speculated about the hypothetical contents of an imaginary porn magazine for intelligent trees that would be entitled Enthouse.

Entitled, Intelligent, Magazine, Tree, Trees, Would Be

Being a writer can be isolating. It's good to be among readers and booksellers.

Reader, Booksellers, Among, Isolating, Readers

I'm a fantasy writer. I don't do SF. This is important to me. If you're not clear on what genre you're in, everything gets muddled, and it's hard to know which rules you're breaking.

Fantasy, Genre, Gets, Important, Know, Rules

When I was 35 I realized that I was still thinking a lot about what it would be like to go to Narnia. To really go - not just in a daydream, or in a children's book, but what it would actually feel like, physically, psychologically, every other way. The idea was haunting me.

Book, Children, Haunting, Like, Physically, Thinking

I love playing with the conventions of fantasy, and breaking rules, and crossing lines.

Breaking Rules, Conventions, Crossing, Crossing The Line, Lines

I read Susanna Clarke's Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell, which I think will subsequently be recognized as one of the first great novels of the 21st century.

21St, Firsts, Strange, Susanna, Think, Thinking

Careful what you hunt, lest you catch it.

Careful, Catch, Hunt, Hunts, Lest

I studied the cello for a long time, from when I was little up through college.

Cello, College, Littles, Long, Studied, Time

The idea of some kind of objectively constant, universal literary value is seductive. It feels real. It feels like a stone cold fact that In Search of Lost Time, by Marcel Proust, is better than A Shore Thing, by Snooki. And it may be; Snooki definitely has more one-star reviews on Amazon. But if literary value is real, no one seems to be able to locate it or define it very well. We're increasingly adrift in a grey void of aesthetic relativism.

Cold, Fact, Ideas, Real, Stars, Stone

It's a terrible thing for a book, when you feel like you're supposed to like it.

Book, Like, Like You, Terrible, Thing

You're all so obsessed with other worlds, you're so convinced that this one is crap and everywhere else is great, but you've never bothered to figure out what's going on here!

Bothered, Contentment, Convinced, Everywhere, Obsessed, Other Worlds

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