Famous Quotes

"I loved fantasy, but I particularly loved the stories in which somebody got out of where they were and into somewhere better - as in the 'Chronicles Of Narnia,' 'The Wizard Of Oz,' 'The Phantom Tollbooth,' the 'Dungeons & Dragons' cartoon on Saturday morning in the '80s."

Lev Grossman on Morning

More quotes about Morning

• "Old friends pass away, new friends appear. It is just like the days. An old day passes, a new day arrives. The important thing is to make it meaningful: a meaningful friend - or a meaningful day."

  Dalai Lama on Morning

• "When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive - to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love."

  Marcus Aurelius on Morning

• "Prayer is the key of the morning and the bolt of the evening."

  Mahatma Gandhi on Morning

• "If it's your job to eat a frog, it's best to do it first thing in the morning. And If it's your job to eat two frogs, it's best to eat the biggest one first."

  Mark Twain on Morning

• "Today I choose life. Every morning when I wake up I can choose joy, happiness, negativity, pain... To feel the freedom that comes from being able to continue to make mistakes and choices - today I choose to feel life, not to deny my humanity but embrace it."

  Kevyn Aucoin on Morning

More quotes by Lev Grossman

• "And I'm not as young as I once was. At my age, I don't have time to be bored."

• "One already feels like an anachronism, writing novels in the age of what-ever-this-is-the-age-of, but touring to promote them feels doubly anachronistic. The marketplace is showing an increasing intolerance for the time-honored practice of printing information on paper and shipping it around the country."

• "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."

• "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."

• "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."