I studied the cello for a long time, from when I was little up through college.

I don't know if I've ever derived such an immediate sense of calm and well-being from any book as I did from 'Right Ho, Jeeves.' It was like I was Pac-Man and the book was a power-up.

The real world is horrible.

As a writer I'm more drawn to villains who are just slightly mad.

You don’t learn about yourself by being alone, you learn about yourself from other people.

Most people carry that pain around inside them their whole lives, until they kill the pain by other means, or until it kills them. But you, my friends, you found another way: a way to use the pain. To burn it as fuel, for light and warmth. You have learned to break the world that has tried to break you.

There's a special gut-check moment the first time you write a scene in which somebody casts a spell.