You didn’t get the quest you wanted, you got the one you could do.

You don't want to move toward some utopian literary situation where everybody's free of all conventions. That's ridiculous! Conventions are what you need. You have nothing to break down if you don't have conventions.

She tortured everybody around her, but only because she was more tortured than anyone.

The process of learning is a nonstop orgy of wonderment.

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

The danger would be going back, or staying still. The only way out was through. The past was ruins, but the present was still in play.

I used to write in a local coffee shop, but there was another guy, another writer, who kept sitting in my favorite seat. I would show up, and he would be there, and I would get exiled to a couch or something, and it would throw me off my game.