I never thought about doing a sequel when I was actually writing 'The Magicians.' I only ever considered it a standalone.
Lev GrossmanThe novel is a highly corrupt medium, after all - in the end the vast majority of them simply aren't that great, and are destined to be forgotten.
Lev GrossmanGenuinely social people never ceased to amaze him. Their brains seemed to generate an inexhaustible fund of things to say, naturally, with no effort, out of nothing at all.
Lev GrossmanWhen the oldest Chatwin, melancholy Martin, opens the cabinet of the grandfather clock that stands in a dark, narrow back hallway in his auntโs house and slip through into Fillory...itโs like heโs opening the covers of a book, but a book that did what books always promised to do and never ac tually quite did: get you out, really out, of where you were and into something better.
Lev Grossman