There is really no end to life's little humiliations.

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

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

One already feels like an anachronism, writing novels in the age of what-ever-this-is-the-age-of, but touring to promote them feels doubly anachronistic. The marketplace is showing an increasing intolerance for the time-honored practice of printing information on paper and shipping it around the country.

Genuinely 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.

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

I read Susanna Clarke's Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell, which I think will subsequently be recognized as one of the first great novels of the 21st century.