Do you promise to hate my parents as much as I do?" "Oh, absolutely," Quentin said. "Maybe even more.

How often have I met and disliked writers whose books I love; and conversely, hated the books and then wound up liking the writer? Too often.

The line between outside and inside is fuzzier in fantasy. Maybe that's something people are looking for.

Everybody wanted to be the hero of their own story. Nobody wanted to be comic relief.

Oddly, the meanings of books are defined for me much more by their beginnings and middles than they are by their endings.

The process of learning is a nonstop orgy of wonderment.

I went to college at Harvard, then did three years of graduate school at Yale. At both places I studied comparative literature. People find it odd that I went to both Harvard and Yale, and I guess it is odd, but that's just what people did where I grew up.