I have spent many, many hours reading J.K. Rowling’s work. I am a known ‘Harry Potter’ fan. Lev Grossman Read Quote
A lot of young-adult authors, great ones, have tried their hands at literary fiction, and not a lot of them have succeeded. Not even Roald Dahl could switch-hit, and not for lack of trying. Lev Grossman Read Quote
What surprised me about ‘The Casual Vacancy’ was not just how good it was, but the particular way in which it was good. Lev Grossman Read Quote
When I left college I thought – based on a staggeringly inadequate understanding of how the world worked – that I might like to go into book publishing. Lev Grossman Read Quote
I guess I was raised in a household with a lot of reverence for the physical sanctity of books. You didn’t destroy books. Lev Grossman Read Quote
I love rare books. Not that I own a lot of them, mind you. You couldn’t quite call me a rare-book collector. But I did once work in a rare-books library, and I wrote a novel about a rare book. Lev Grossman Read Quote
Being a writer can be isolating. It’s good to be among readers and booksellers. Lev Grossman Read Quote
Which is the healthier kind of literary diversity: an un-gate-kept self-published book world, run substantially through Amazon? Or our current book world, which is part-gate-kept, part-not, with many different publishers and retailers and platforms? I’m not smart enough to figure it out, but if I had to guess I’d guess the latter. Lev Grossman Read Quote
I’ve drunk Amazon’s free Diet Coke. Nothing makes more sense to me than a company trying to make bookselling into a profitable business. I’m not anti-Amazon, and I’m not pro-publishers either. I’m pro-books. Lev Grossman Read Quote
