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Lev Grossman Quotes

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.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: american
Birth: June 26, 1969

Topics

Love Up Books Liking Whose Writer

You don't need to exorcise your personal demons onstage.

Demons You Personal Need Your

Most men love money and security more, and creation and construction less, as they get older.

John Maynard Keynes

Love Money Men Construction Security

I get excited about a crowd that likes our kind of music.

Music Kind Excited Crowd Get Likes

I'm the king of brownie sundaes!

Great weight should be given to the judgment of professionals on what information, if disclosed, would harm national security.

Great Information Security Judgment

I feel like most standup comedians do it the way I did it, where you just go to open mics and cut your teeth. Sketch and improv - they take a lot of classes. It's not unusual, the way I did it. It's just that, with standup, no one knows how to start because there's no book for it; there's no place you can really go.

Start Book Feel You Place Sketch

When I finished the juniors I felt, perhaps for about a year and a half, that everything was going to be the same and that I would be able to go out there and win any match. But it wasn't the case. I struggled.

Amelie Mauresmo

Win Year Go Same Everything Out

I want a job where I work for eight months, then do nothing for four.

Work Job Want Nothing Where Four

If you want music that speaks to you, that LISTENS to you, you have to go out of your way, which I enjoy actually. I'm constantly on a private-eye kick to find the totally obscure.

Music Enjoy You Find Go Want

If you ask most trainers who have ridden which pressure is greater - watching your horse or riding it - they will tell you it is harder watching it because you have no control over what happens.

Control Pressure Horse You Will Ask

I never actually sought out an agent or a publishing house. A friend of mine named David Simmer got wind of what I was doing, and he sent one of my books to a literary lawyer in Los Angeles. He loved it, and he sent it to other people, including an agent, and he picked me up, and that's how 'Bird Box' got to where it is now.

Friend Bird People Me Wind Lawyer

If the history of the Day of Atonement has anything to say to us now it is: never relieve individuals of moral responsibility. The more we have, the more we grow.

History Responsibility Day Grow Say

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