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

I'm a fantasy writer. I don't do SF. This is important to me. If you're not clear on what genre you're in, everything gets muddled, and it's hard to know which rules you're breaking.

I always hated those fantasy books where, at the end, all the kids had to go home. At the end of a Narnia book, you always got shown the door. Same with The Wizard Of Oz and The Phantom Tollbooth. You get kicked out of your magic land. It's like, "By the way, here's your next surprise: You get to go home!" And the kids are all like, "Yay, we get to go home!" I never bought that. Did anybody buy that?

Magic is wild, dangerous stuff. You never realize how useful limitations are until it's much too late.

Don't take anyone's writing advice too seriously.

Maybe this was one of those times when being a hero didn’t involve looking particularly brave. It was just doing what you should.

I never thought about doing a sequel when I was actually writing 'The Magicians.' I only ever considered it a standalone.