David Liss Quotes & Sayings

“We live in this era that has benefited from the Industrial Revolution, and we live with a kind of luxury and plenty that even all but the poorest of Americans live with a kind of sensuousness that was unimagined by medieval kings. But in order to get to this point, a lot of people had to suffer in really terrible ways.”

“I was always a big Justice League fan. I always loved Batman, Superman - I have a weird Martian Manhunter fixation.”

“In my research, what I found most interesting was how common and ordinary magic was to people in the past.”

“I am saying that while popular culture usually portrays practitioners of magic as separate from ordinary people, often biologically different, many people have habits or customs or superstitions that show magic was once a whole lot more democratic.”

“I didn't want to write a book that suggested that magic good/technology bad.”

“I don't generally listen to music while working, but sometimes music can help me get past minor writer's block.”

“I once spent a spent a summer selling encyclopedias door to door.”

“I do feel like I'm in this lucky position where I can write something and people will read it, and I feel like I should say something that's probably worth saying... I feel like it's something worth saying, and one more person saying it is better.”

“I do, in fact, have a book club. I meet with a couple of guys once a month of a lunchtime discussion of some interesting text, usually, but not always, philosophical.”

“I lived in Atlanta for a couple of years while getting my masters at Georgia State. I thought I hated it at the time, but I've been back a couple of times since, and there's no place I've lived to which returning is so much like visiting a place I only remember from my dreams.”