I think every fantasy reader secretly believes they know how magic works.

Stop looking for the next secret door that is going to lead you to your real life. Stop waiting. This is it: there's nothing else.

People - me included - want to get excited about books. Good books are a good thing.

I feel very conscious of my influences. T.H. White is very important for me.

When the oldest Chatwin, melancholy Martin, opens the cabinet of the grandfather clock that stands in a dark, narrow back hallway in his aunt’s house and slip through into Fillory...it’s like he’s 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.

Careful what you hunt, lest you catch it.

Being a writer can be isolating. It's good to be among readers and booksellers.