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

I guess I was raised in a household with a lot of reverence for the physical sanctity of books. You didn't destroy books.

Book tours are excellent things, and one is lucky to get to go on one, but they have a way of leeching away one's will to live.

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

Maybe this was one of those times when being a hero didn’t involve looking particularly brave. It was just doing what you should.

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.

I recognize that on paper, you can't really tell that I'm a fan or a nerd.