American - Novelist | June 26, 1969 -
There's a special gut-check moment the first time you write a scene in which somebody casts a spell.
Lev Grossman
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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.
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I went to college at Harvard, then did three years of graduate school at Yale. At both places I studied comparative literature. People find it odd that I went to both Harvard and Yale, and I guess it is odd, but that's just what people did where I grew up.
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I came from an anxious, overly intense East Coast academic family. That was the way of our tribe.
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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.
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I studied the cello for a long time, from when I was little up through college.
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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.
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Until now, I've been a kind of binge-writer - I'll carve out five or six hours on a weekend day and make a large container of espresso and just bang out a lot of words.
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I think every fantasy reader secretly believes they know how magic works.
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I never thought about doing a sequel when I was actually writing 'The Magicians.' I only ever considered it a standalone.
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And I'm not as young as I once was. At my age, I don't have time to be bored.
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