Lev Grossman Quotes

It's fun to tease people about where fiction and life intersect.

For a while these reveries provided an outlet for his imagination; they were a satisfactory hint of the unreality of reality, a promise that the rock of the world was founded securely on a fairy's wing.

Fantasy and reality often overlap.

I'm not interested in an imaginary world.

I knew there was something special about the theater for me something beyond the regular reality, something that I could get into and transcend and become something other than myself.

I enter the world called real as one enters a mist.

As entertainment, fiction may offer momentary relief from the stresses of reality.

I've always loved fantasy. I've always loved sci-fi. It's not like I can list off my favorite sci-fi shows or movies, but I just love being taken into a different world. I'm a huge fan of Steven Spielberg. I'm a huge fan of George Lucas. I've always loved it.

Fantasies are absolutely safe, as long as you never try to make them a reality.

I dream. Sometimes I think that's the only right thing to do.

Fantasy flows in where fact leaves a vacuum.

Brooklyn was a dream. All the things that happened there just couldn't happen. It was all dream stuff. Or was it all real and true and was it that she, Francie, was the dreamer?

What is admirable about the fantastic is that there is no longer anything fantastic: there is only the real.

Fantasy is so much hotter than reality most of the time.

I have abandoned my search for truth and am now looking for a good fantasy

When you have spent an important part of your life playing Let's Pretend, it's often easy to see symbolism where none exists.

What happens in a fantasy can be more involving than what happens in life, and thank goodness for that.

Part of the beauty of fiction is that we come alive in a body that we don't own.

Reality doesn't interest me.

I spent my childhood in an imaginary world - probably because I needed an escape. I think that's one of the reasons people have imaginations - because they can't maintain existence here.

The public has an appetite for anything about imagination - anything that is as far away from reality as is creatively possible.

I just love writing. It's magical, it's somewhere else to go, it's somewhere much more dreadful, somewhere much more exciting. Somewhere I feel I belong, possibly more than in the so-called real world.

Perhaps fantasy offers imaginative escapism more than other genres.

What is a television apparatus to man, who has only to shut his eyes to see the most inaccessible regions of the seen and the never seen, who has only to imagine in order to pierce through walls and cause all the planetary Baghdads of his dreams to rise from the dust.

There are many ways to be free. One of them is to transcend reality by imagination, as I try to do.