Escapism has value, even if I don't know what its value is, exactly. Maybe it's just part of some healthy way that we deal with the world.

Being brave was easy when you would rather die than give up.

Nothing is wrong with you. You're not different. Everybody feels as bad as you do: this is just what writing a novel feels like. To write a novel is to come in contact with raw, primal feelings, hopes and longings and psychic wounds, and try to make a big public word-sculpture out of them, and that is a crazy hard thing to do.

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

I have spent many, many hours reading J.K. Rowling's work. I am a known 'Harry Potter' fan.

By now he had learned enough to know that when he was getting annoyed at somebody else, it was usually because there was something that he himself should be doing, and he wasn't doing it.

I mean, when you're tired of book reviews, you're tired of life.