Lev Grossman Quotes About Magic

Quotes about: Magic

• In a way fighting was just like using magic. You said the words, and they altered the universe. By merely speaking you could create damage and pain, cause tears to fall, drive people away, make yourself feel better, make your life worse.

  Lev Grossman

  Pain, Fall, Fighting

  Lev Grossman (2015). “The Magicians Trilogy”, p.257, Penguin

• Most people are blind to magic. They move thru a blank and empty world. They’re bored with their lives and there’s nothing they can do about it. They’re eaten alive by longing and they’re dead before they die.

  Lev Grossman

  Moving, People, Bored

  Lev Grossman (2009). “The Magicians: A Novel”, p.88, Penguin

• Magic: it was what happened when the mind met the world, and the mind won for a change.

  Lev Grossman

  Magic, Mind, World

  Lev Grossman (2015). “The Magicians Trilogy”, p.482, Penguin

• I always hated those fantasy books where, at the end, all the kids had to go home. At the end of a Narnia book, you always got shown the door. Same with The Wizard Of Oz and The Phantom Tollbooth. You get kicked out of your magic land. It's like, "By the way, here's your next surprise: You get to go home!" And the kids are all like, "Yay, we get to go home!" I never bought that. Did anybody buy that?

  Lev Grossman

  Book, Kids, Home

  Interview with Jason Heller, www.avclub.com. August 26, 2009.

• Magic is wild, dangerous stuff. You never realize how useful limitations are until it's much too late.

  Lev Grossman

  Magic, Too Late, Stuff

  "INTERVIEW: Lev Grossman on Writing ‘The Magician King’, Narnia and the Line Between SF and Fantasy". Interview with Andrew Liptak, www.sfsignal.com. August 17, 2011.

• Maybe there's a sense that technology isn't necessarily the answer to a lot of our problems. Fantasy offers readers a less radically alienated world - a world where desires and feelings that normally are trapped inside your mind are made real in the form of magic.

  Lev Grossman

  Real, Technology, Feelings

  "INTERVIEW: Lev Grossman on Writing ‘The Magician King’, Narnia and the Line Between SF and Fantasy". Interview with Andrew Liptak, www.sfsignal.com. August 17, 2011.

• I think every fantasy reader secretly believes they know how magic works.

  Lev Grossman

  Believe, Thinking, Magic

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