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

The process of learning is a nonstop orgy of wonderment.

When I was 35 I realized that I was still thinking a lot about what it would be like to go to Narnia. To really go - not just in a daydream, or in a children's book, but what it would actually feel like, physically, psychologically, every other way. The idea was haunting me.

Read everything. If you haven't read everything, you'll never be able to write anything.

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

If there's a single lesson that life teaches us, it's that wishing doesn't make it so.

The novel is a highly corrupt medium, after all - in the end the vast majority of them simply aren't that great, and are destined to be forgotten.