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.

I'm not one of your knockabout, knuckle-scarred, Internet-controversy-courting book critics. Occasionally I stumble into controversy accidentally, but not because I enjoy it. It's probably just because I'm a weird person.

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

He wasn't surprised. He was used to this anticlimactic feeling, where by the time you've done all the work to get something you don't even want it anymore.

That was the thing about the world: it wasn't that things were harder than you thought they were going to be, it was that they were hard in ways that you didn't expect.

I got my heart's desire, and there my troubles began.

The problem with growing up is that once you're grown up, the people who aren't grown up aren't fun anymore.