Quotes About Magic

Being a playwright of any race is difficult, and Lord knows it gets more difficult the further you get from the middle of the road. I don't know what kind of magic my mojo is working, but it's working.

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.

For me a poem has to sing out of itself and the lilt of it carries the magic.

The Scottish Highlands are incredible. There seems to be magic and poetry everywhere.

Magic Johnson is one of the greatest players to ever play... he's the best point guard to ever play, so I can learn a lot of things from him.

As a kid, it was always my dream to open a closet and end up fighting dragons or battling aliens.

You do movies because you love movies and you write music because you love writing music, and sometimes there's this magic combination.

For a love story, basic emotion should be there, you need a combination of everything. Good chemistry between the actors, music, script. If even one of them is not in place, the magic will not be there.

Hogwarts is comforting.

In the 1990s music was a beautiful collaborative process between the composer, lyricist and director. They would exchange ideas and magic used to happen.

2018 was magical for me as far as IPL is concerned.

The stuff that is done on Broadway is hardly theatre. It is part magic show, part rock concert, and part conjuring things.

I hate to cook, but I love to eat. I would want to be able to conjure yummy and healthy meals by wiggling my nose!

I think hope and magic are probably connected.

Consensus doesn't happen by magic... You have to drive to it.

I surround myself with fantastical things because it makes it a little easier to write fantastical stories.

Some of the furor that surrounded a Harry Potter publication was fun.

I will admit, I once launched myself at Julie Garwood for a hug, hoping some of her magic would rub off on me... and I have fangirl crushes on Susan Elizabeth Phillips, Linda Howard, and Kresley Cole, among many others.

Children don't have to suspend disbelief like adults do... their brains can take in whatever crazy magical ideas you throw at them.

The more you can create that magic bubble, that suspension of disbelief, for a while, the better.

The Polar Express is about faith, and the power of imagination to sustain faith. It's also about the desire to reside in a world where magic can happen, the kind of world we all believed in as children, but one that disappears as we grow older.

The Goose Fair was the cornerstone of the city's year. The smell of fairs is amazing: deep-fried donuts, hot dogs, the frying of onions. You never wanted to eat all your baby pink candyfloss - it was so sickly sweet - but seeing it made with a stick around the barrel was like magic.

My favorite was the one about 'Snow White'. Those funky little guys with the beards. The poisonous apple. And that cool mirror the evil stepmother used to talk to. You know, she'd ask it all these questions: Who's the nicest? Who's the sweetest... Who's the fairest of them all? And for a while, everything was hunky-dory.

I read H.P. Lovecraft. I also like Sword and Sorcery stuff, Arthurian legend.