3 December 2020 Lev Grossman 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.
3 December 2020 Lev Grossman And I’m not as young as I once was. At my age, I don’t have time to be bored.
3 December 2020 Lev Grossman I’m happy to report that ‘The New Press’ is still in business to this day. But not thanks to me. I was a really bad publishing intern.
3 December 2020 Lev Grossman When it comes to true humility in the face of history, nothing beats complete silence.
3 December 2020 Lev Grossman 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.
3 December 2020 Lev Grossman Becoming an author changes your attitude too. Once you see where books come from, and how they’re made, they never seem quite as sacred again.
