Quotes About Magic

I didn't want readers to have to make allowances for what they couldn't see, but to be able to say to themselves that the fabric of the magic detailed was perfectly believable.

As a fan of reading - I've always loved reading - I just love reading books that take me away for a little while and let me disappear. And that's why I loved 'Harry Potter' growing up.

The curious thing about the Ready-Made is that I've never been able to arrive at a definition or explanation that fully satisfies me. There's still magic in the idea, so I'd rather keep it that way than try to be exoteric about it.

Hugh Grant has that magic in real life, so when he's saying these lines, 'It's always been you,' it's just devastating.

In real life, I wish I could do a Scourgify. That would just be incredible helpful, when I know the rest of the family is gong to be back in 30 seconds and I haven't tidied up. That would be really helpful.

I need to be believe that dragons are real. I want them be a real thing.

What others call magic realism is normal and an everyday thing to me.

I realise that there's something about fantasy, whether it's written by the Grimm Brothers or J. K. Rowling or Thorne or J. M. Barrie, that it gets closer to the human experience than realism every could.

It's not sometimes realistic to think that something magical can happen, but I think I look for the magic.

I would try to write 'realistic' fiction, and someone would fly, or there would be a black hole full of demons or a girl who attracted frogs.

My stories include realistic fiction and fantasy.

Science trumps magical thinking: there was a reason the Incas called their mercury mine 'la mina de los muertos,' the mine of the dead. Building a life and a community upon principles that ignore such realities is doomed to fail.

The real magic is in making the intangible idea, the creative impulse, manifest and live in our reality.

When we started in television, there was that magic box in the corner of the room, and 'Oh my gosh - look what it's doing!'

Greece is the most magical place on Earth.

Ultimately, what we're trying to do for our customers or our guests is create magical travel experiences.

I feel very guilty doing magic because you're deceiving somebody.

Bewitched is half of everything.

I love that in celebrating Halloween, we can get lost in the magic of make-believe and fantasy no matter what age we are!

Harry Constantine: It happens to us all. We get a sniff of sorcery and Oh! what plans we make! We'll shake Creation and leave nothing but smiles and wit and a reputation all men envy!

Sam picked up his pack, but before he could put it on, Mogget leaped onto it and slid under the top flap. All that could be seen of him were his green eyes and one white-furred ear. Remember I advised against this way, he instructed. Wake me when whatever terrible thing is a about to happen happens, or if it appears I might get wet.

Please, Mogget," whispered Lirael, too soft to be heard by anyone at all. But the white shape did hear. It stopped and turned inwards, to face Orannis, changing from a pillar of fire to a more human shape, but one with skin as bright as a burning star. "I am Yrael," it said, casting a hand out to throw a line of silver fire into the breaking spell-ring, its voice crackling with force. "I also stand against you.

It always seemed somehow less real here... a really detailed dream, but sort of washed out, like a thin watercolor. Softer, somehow, even with their electric light and engines and everything. I guess it was because there was hardly any magic.

I used to think like that at school, Sabriel answered. Dreaming about the Old Kingdom. Proper Charter Magic. Dead to bind. Princes to be -- Rescued?