'Pride and Prejudice' is often compared to 'Cinderella,' but Jane Austen's real 'Cinderella' tale is 'Mansfield Park.'
In some ways, 'Mansfield Park' is 'Pride and Prejudice' turned inside out.
I tell stories. I kind of stumbled on that by trying to combine Jane Austen and magic.
I had to restrain myself from buying a book on 19th-century fruit knives.
It's not easy to convey to someone who doesn't read comics just how Alan Moore has dominated the field since 'Watchmen.'
In 'Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell,' I wanted to create the most convincing story of magic and magicians that I could.
It's funny, because I don't think of myself as a novelist. I think of myself as a writer.
I always start out saying exactly what everybody looks like. I don't know why.
I feel very much at home in the early nineteenth century and am not inclined to leave it.
