He who completes a quest does not merely find something. He becomes something.

The process of learning is a nonstop orgy of wonderment.

I got my heart's desire, and there my troubles began.

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

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

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

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.