Lev Grossman People Quotations

The year after I graduated college I had a job in a library. When people underlined passages in the library books, or made notes in the margins, the books were sent to me. I erased the lines and the notes. Yes, that was my job.

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

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.

People - me included - want to get excited about books. Good books are a good thing.

The new Web is a very different thing. It's a tool for bringing together the small contributions of millions of people and making them matter. Silicon Valley consultants call it Web 2.0, as if it were a new version of some old software. But it's really a revolution.

The line between outside and inside is fuzzier in fantasy. Maybe that's something people are looking for.

Genuinely social people never ceased to amaze him. Their brains seemed to generate an inexhaustible fund of things to say, naturally, with no effort, out of nothing at all.

You don’t learn about yourself by being alone, you learn about yourself from other people.