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It's very exciting to take magic into a new direction, whereas a lot of times magic comes from a place of sort of ego, like, 'Look what I can do that you can't do.' It kind of comes across that way a lot, and you're always trying to challenge the magician; you're always trying to figure out how the magician is doing it.

I arrived at school pensive, introverted, and not very sporty, so magic became a place of mystery and intrigue, an escape for my boyish mind.

For me, even in my first book, the pleasures of writing anything magical is that it has to be physical. It has to be grounded and very much in this world. Then, I get to play with all the consequences of this new thing.

I still want magic, I find. The old fashioned kind. I don't believe in it, but I still have a hankering for it.

Yesterday I was thinking about the whole idea of genius and creative people, and the notion that if you create some magical art, somehow that exempts you from having to pay attention to the small things.

Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.

I am a great admirer of mystery and magic. Look at this life - all mystery and magic.

I am a fan of magic and fantasy, particularly when it's grounded in reality.

Every creative story is different. And yet every creative story is the same: There was nothing, now there is something. It's almost like magic.

The tricks of magic follow the archetypes of narrative fiction - there are tales of creation and loss, death and resurrection, and obstacles that must be overcome.