Top 100 Grossman Quotes
#1. I'm the opposite of someone like David Grossman, who knows how his characters walk, and how they smell. I don't allow myself to imagine what mine look like at all. My sense of them comes from the inside. They remain, by necessity, physically vague in my mind.
Nicole Krauss
#3. Albert Grossman called my office and spoke with my partner Richard Leacock and asked if we'd be interested in making a film with his client, Bob Dylan.
D. A. Pennebaker
#4. I took a 19th-century Russian novel class in college and have been smitten with Russian literature ever since. Writers like Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky, Grossman, and Solzhenitsyn tackle the great questions of morality, politics, love, and death.
Anthony Marra
#5. David Grossman may be the most gifted writer I've ever read. [To the End of the Land is] powerful, shattering, and unflinching. To read it is to have yourself taken apart, undone, touched at the place of your own essence.
Nicole Krauss
#6. The kindest thing you can offer an author is a review and a star rating. So appreciated.
THE GOLDEN PEACOCK has had a successful 5-star run on Goodreads and on Amazon. Thank you!" Lauren B. Grossman
Lauren B. Grossman
#7. Frank made a face; an Englishman to the bone, he would rather lap water out of the toilet than drink tea made from teabags. The Lipton's had been left by Mrs. Grossman, the weekly cleaning woman, who thought tea made from loose leaves messy and disgusting.
Diana Gabaldon
#8. For (Levi) Grossman, no books feel more like home than C. S. Lewis's Chronicles of Narnia, which provide the template for what he likes to read - and how he wants to write.
Joe Fassler
#9. When you're reading my book, you're not in a four dimensional continuum, you're in my continuum, the Grossman continuum.
Richard Grossman
#10. I think for Lev [Grossman], C. S. Lewis was a huge inspiration from his childhood. I know that Brideshead Revisited is a book that he's incredibly found of and he took certain structural influences from that book that he brought into The Magicians.
Hale Appleman
#11. My intention is always to honor the character that Lev [Grossman] created in the books and my greatest concern, honestly, is that the fans of the books will embrace me as this character that they've imagined in their heads.
Hale Appleman
#12. Kids are not physical creatures, and they're not stupid. They know all about violence and power and raw emotions. What's really scary is when adults pretend that such things don't exist."
(Grossman's review of The Hunger Games in "Time" magazine, Sept. 7, 2009)
Lev Grossman
#13. I killed the Google Alert I used to have on myself two years ago. I don't need any more information about myself. I get more than enough of that just by being me.
Lev Grossman
#14. Hate isn't like love, it doesn't end. It goes on forever. You can never get to the bottom of it. And it's so pure, so unconditional!
Lev Grossman
#15. When you can't bear something but it goes on anyway, the person who survives isn't you anymore; you've changed and become someone else, a new person, the one who did bear it after all.
Austin Grossman
#16. Magic, Quentin discovered, wasn't romantic at all. It was grim and repetitive and deceptive. And he worked his ass off and became very good at it.
Lev Grossman
#17. Loosening his tie with one hand, Quentin stepped out into the cold clear winter air and flew.
Lev Grossman
#18. Do you promise to hate my parents as much as I do?"
"Oh, absolutely," Quentin said. "Maybe even more.
Lev Grossman
#19. At war a Russian man puts on a white shirt. He may live in sin, but he dies like a saint.
Vasily Grossman
#20. We hunt the White Stag, like Quentin did. We catch it or shoot it or whatever you do with it. We get three wishes. We wish Fillory would last forever and not die. Done. Mischief managed." Eliot
Lev Grossman
#21. We live our entire lives thinking we know those closest to us. But do we ever really?
Hilary Grossman
#22. I've realized now that hope almost never goes together with reason. It's something quite irrational and instinctive.
Vasily Grossman
#24. Maybe this was one of those times when being a hero didn't involve looking particularly brave. It was just doing what you should.
Lev Grossman
#25. And this man, who during three long decades had not once remembered that the world contains lilac bushes - and pansies, sandy garden paths, little carts with containers of fizzy water - this man gave a deep sigh, convinced now that life had gone on in his absence, that life had continued. (pg8)
Vasily Grossman
#26. His hair - cut your fucking hair already, you're not Alan Rickman - was lank.
Lev Grossman
#27. We may not have computers or telephones or television, but we have books and conversations. And we talk to each other in person, not through e-mails and texts.
Nancy Grossman
#28. I'm drawing a diagram of what time looks like if you're looking straight into it - like looking down a tunnel and seeing a circle, if the tunnel were an angry ten-dimensional crab, which is what, in vastly oversimplified terms, we mean by the human word time.
Austin Grossman
#29. The function of the photographer is to help people understand the world around them.
Sid Grossman
#30. I've always been a risk taker; I've never believed in following the expected path.
Mindy Grossman
#31. I used to write in a local coffee shop, but there was another guy, another writer, who kept sitting in my favorite seat. I would show up, and he would be there, and I would get exiled to a couch or something, and it would throw me off my game.
Lev Grossman
#32. By now he had learned enough to know that when he was getting annoyed at somebody else, it was usually because there was something that he himself should be doing, and he wasn't doing it.
Lev Grossman
#33. She kept reminding me she was at a wedding, which didn't really help my emotional state, if you know what I mean.
Hilary Grossman
#34. Quentin went to work on a bitter single malt Scotch that tasted like it had been decanted through the stump of an oak tree that had been killed by lightning.
Lev Grossman
#35. You haven't known terror until you've been chased by a man-sized crow.
Austin Grossman
#36. We found some of them. It was always either a fight
Lev Grossman
#37. You didn't get the quest you wanted, you got the one you could do.
Lev Grossman
#38. I'm petite, only 5 feet tall, so occasionally I'd get an audition for a small person. But small people and little people are technically different.
Naomi Grossman
#39. It was so much easier to be angry. Being angry made him feel strong, even though
and this contradiction did nothing to diminish his anger
he was angry only because his position was so weak.
Lev Grossman
#40. She had never expected anything special to just happen to her. Her plan for life was to get out there and make special things happen, which was a much more sensible plan from a probability point of view.
Lev Grossman
#41. What's the fastest migratory bird on Earth?" "An airplane.
Lev Grossman
#42. I believe in accessibility. I believe in honesty and a culture that supports that. And you can't have that if you're not open to receiving feedback.
Mindy Grossman
#43. There's nothing more difficult than saying goodbye to a house where you've suffered.
Vasily Grossman
#44. The passing time is painful. I have lost the art of moving simply, naturally, within it. I am swept back against its flow. Angry, vindictive, it pierces me all the time, all the time with its spikes.
David Grossman
#45. The question of naturalism is a fallacy, it does not exist ... The photographic image replaces naturalistic experience.
Sid Grossman
#46. Guy lives in a fantasy world without junk food or cars or trans fats or TV and he's still fat. You had to admire his dedication to the cause.
Lev Grossman
#47. Vile Father's brown nipples, on the ends of his pendulous man-cans, were like dried figs.
Lev Grossman
#48. And I'm not as young as I once was. At my age, I don't have time to be bored.
Lev Grossman
#49. I rubbed my head trying to fend off the headache I was sure this conversation would bring me.
Hilary Grossman
#50. I write about life as it exists within houses and on the streets. And there's nothing, hopefully, in any of my characterizations or in any of my plottings or in any of my valuations that doesn't ring true to life. I'm a novelist. I'm not a theoretician.
Richard Grossman
#51. Everybody wanted to be the hero of their own story. Nobody wanted to be comic relief.
Lev Grossman
#52. I have a hard time believing that the history of the universe is being written by a talking rabbit," Eliot said. "Though that would explain a lot.
Lev Grossman
#53. Computers had their origin in military cryptography - in a sense, every computer game represents the commandeering of a military code-breaking apparatus for purposes of human expression.
Austin Grossman
#54. shake him up. Get him out of his comfort zone so he could stop sneering at everybody else who was out of theirs. Get him thinking about something besides his own neuroses for a change.
Lev Grossman
#55. What is the point of magic if we can't fix real problems?
Lev Grossman
#56. Freedom is the direct opposite of necessity; freedom is necessity overcome.
Vasily Grossman
#57. She tortured everybody around her, but only because she was more tortured than anyone.
Lev Grossman
#58. I got my first whiff of what big-time adult literature was all about when I was in 8th grade. I got it from Mark Linn-Baker. You know - the guy from 'Perfect Strangers.'
Lev Grossman
#59. The problem was that Julia was smart, and Julia was interested in the truth. She didn't like inconsistencies, and she didn't let go until they were resolved, ever.
Lev Grossman
#60. He'd been free his whole life, if only he'd known it.
Lev Grossman
#61. It didn't matter where you were, if you were in a room full of books you were at least halfway home.
Lev Grossman
#62. Some people need their families to become who they're supposed to be. And there's nothing wrong with that. But there are other ways to do it.
Lev Grossman
#63. The line between outside and inside is fuzzier in fantasy. Maybe that's something people are looking for.
Lev Grossman
#64. 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.
Lev Grossman
#65. Growing up in the '70s and '80s, science fiction and especially fantasy had such a stigma attached to them. I felt so punished and exiled for being devoted to these things.
Lev Grossman
#67. infinite corridor of panic that led nowhere.
Lev Grossman
#68. Byerozkin knew very well that the man with no quiet at the bottom of his soul was unable to endure for long, however courageous he might be in combat. He thought of fear or cowardice, on the other hand, as something temporary, something that could be cured as easily as a cold.
Vasily Grossman
#69. With the caveat that it is much more difficult and much more dangerous and much more interesting to be a magician than it is to be a carpenter.
Lev Grossman
#70. And the greatest tragedy of our age is we don't listen to our consciences. We don't say what we think. We feel one thing and do another.
Vasily Grossman
#71. Escapism has value, even if I don't know what its value is, exactly. Maybe it's just part of some healthy way that we deal with the world.
Lev Grossman
#72. he'd fantasized about having nothing to do except lie on his bed and sleep and stare into space, but now those empty hours were here, and they were getting old amazingly fast.
Lev Grossman
#73. If you're different you always know it, and you can't fix it even if you want to
Austin Grossman
#74. There's a fine line between a superpower and a chronic medical condition.
Austin Grossman
#75. If my generation is remembered for anything, it will be as the last one that remembers the world before the Internet.
Lev Grossman
#76. What about Josh?" he croaked. "Go ask him." "He's got another project." Janet rolled her eyes. "He thinks he can use the Neitherlands to get to Middle-earth. He honestly believes he's going to bone an elf." "I
Lev Grossman
#77. Aesthetics does not exist for the camera as an isolated entity. Aesthetics, in fact, is inseparable from the purpose of the photographer and the use he makes of his theme. When photography fails ... it is usually because a false separation has been imposed on form and content.
Sid Grossman
#78. At the top end you had some fairies squeeing at supersonic pitches; fairies thought all this military stuff was pretty silly, but they went along with it for the same reason that fairies ever did anything, namely, for the lulz.
Lev Grossman
#79. The woman was simply leaving us alone with our future, the future she wouldn't be a part of. She didn't know how to do it or what it was, but she was trying to give it to us.
Austin Grossman
#80. He was endowed with the extraordinary powers of endurance characteristic of madmen and simpletons.
Vasily Grossman
#81. He had painstakingly assembled all the ingredients of happiness. He had performed all the necessary rituals, spoken the words, lit the candles, made the sacrifices. But happiness, like a disobedient spirit, refused to come. He couldn't think what else to do. He
Lev Grossman
#82. I'm a staunch civil libertarian; I really believe that the individual is more important than any societal value.
Richard Grossman
#83. He was obviously one of those people who felt at home in the world-he was naturally buoyant, where Quentin felt like he had to dog-paddle constantly, exhaustingly,humiliatingly, just to get one sip of air.
Lev Grossman
#84. The higher you get the more you realize how much bigger than you everything
Lev Grossman
#85. I hope," she said, "that you don't think you're going to keep me here with bacon." "Not
Lev Grossman
#87. I love hidden things. When you buy something with quality, you like the inside to be as beautiful as the outside. Nobody's going to see it, but you know it's there.
Mindy Grossman
#88. That was magic for you, right? The thing about magic, the real kind: it didn't make excuses, and it was never funny.
Lev Grossman
#89. It was the strangest thing, but he was looking forward to everything so much, he could hardly stand it. He never would have believed it. He never thought he would.
"You know what?" He took Alice's hand. "Let's fly.
Lev Grossman
#90. You. Killed. A. Hermit. You. Weird. Sweaty. Bastard!
Lev Grossman
#91. Supposedly the Thames dragon wrote most of Pink Floyd's stuff. At least after Syd Barrett left. But there's no way to prove it.
Lev Grossman
#92. I like to do things that frighten me. When I'm afraid, I understand more things. I want the feeling... All my instincts cry out against it, every morning anew. Then I say, 'I should do it. If I don't do it, no one will do it for me.
David Grossman
#93. If there was any magic in this world that was not magic, it was wine.
Lev Grossman
#94. We were feeling something they never had - a physical link into the world of the fictional - through the skeletal muscles of the arm to the joystick to the tiny person on the screen, a person in an imagined world. It was crude but real.
Austin Grossman
#95. I saw the misadjusted dials and the whirling gauges and the bubbling green fluid and the electricity arcing around, and a story laid out for me, my sorry self alchemically transmuted into power and robots and fortresses and orbital platforms and costumes and alien kings.
Austin Grossman
#96. Both his voice and eyes had the burning cold of alcohol. His strength no longer lay in his military experience or his knowledge of the map, but in his harsh, impetuous soul.
Vasily Grossman
#97. Human history is not the battle of good struggling to overcome evil. It is a battle fought by a great evil struggling to crush a small kernel of human kindness.
Vasily Grossman
#98. Everything will be all right, She seemed to say, and whatever is not, we will mourn.
Lev Grossman
#99. She was the most beautiful, terrible thing he'd ever seen, like an acetylene flame, an incandescent filament, a fallen star right in front of him.
Lev Grossman
#100. We write. How fortunate we are: The world does not close in on us. The world does not grow smaller.
David Grossman
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