I've stayed in houses that were in the country, and in England, but I'm still not sure that I've stayed in an English country house.

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

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

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

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.

The main advantage of being a reviewer is that you read a lot. A lot of books get sent to you, and you have an amazing vantage point from which to observe what's going on in contemporary fiction - not only genre stuff, the whole spectrum.

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.