Maybe there's a sense that technology isn't necessarily the answer to a lot of our problems. Fantasy offers readers a less radically alienated world - a world where desires and feelings that normally are trapped inside your mind are made real in the form of magic.

Being a hero, the man had observed, is largely a matter of knowing one’s cues.

Oddly, the meanings of books are defined for me much more by their beginnings and middles than they are by their endings.

I'm happy to report that 'The New Press' is still in business to this day. But not thanks to me. I was a really bad publishing intern.

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

It didn’t matter where you were, if you were in a room full of books you were at least halfway home.

Quentin had an obsolete sailing ship that had been raised from the dead. He had psychotically effective swordsman and an enigmatic witch-queen. It wasn't the Fellowship of the Ring, but then again he wasn't trying to save the world from Sauron, he was trying to perform a tax audit on a bunch of hick islanders.