The human race is a very, very magical race. We have a magic power of witches and wizards. We’re here on this earth to unravel the mystery of this planet. The planet is asking for it. – Yoko Ono
I think when people mean that Discworld books have become darker they really mean the series is growing up. In ‘The Colour of Magic’ most of the city is set alight. It’s a joke, in much the same way that the Earth is destroyed almost at the start of Douglas Adams’s ‘The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy.’ – Terry Pratchett
When I finally made it to the set, I spent a lot of time doing damage control on The Magic Christian. – Terry Southern
It’s not sometimes realistic to think that something magical can happen, but I think I look for the magic. – Sherilyn Fenn
All our behaviours are a result of neurophysiological activity in the brain. There is no reason to believe there is any magic going on. – Steven Pinker
Has the world ever been changed by anything save the thought and its magic vehicle the Word? – Thomas Mann
The magic question is, ‘What for?’ But art is not for anything. Art is the ultimate goal. – William McDonough
Guernsey itself was overcrowded, but its cliffs were utterly empty. I spent a wonderful year with a friend, climbing them. It was sheer magic: you went from this pretty, busy village of an island to the sea cliffs and heard nothing but the gulls and the waves. – Simon Mawer
A world in which elves exist and magic works offers greater opportunities to digress and explore. – Terry Brooks
Like all sciences, chemistry is marked by magic moments. For someone fortunate enough to live such a moment, it is an instant of intense emotion: an immense field of investigation suddenly opens up before you. – Yves Chauvin
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. – Suzan-Lori Parks
Seven is the magic figure, because that’s a symbolic figure of my favorite deity, Ogun. – Wole Soyinka
To play safe, I prefer to accept only one type of power: the power of art over trash, the triumph of magic over the brute. – Vladimir Nabokov
I tell stories. I kind of stumbled on that by trying to combine Jane Austen and magic. – Susanna Clarke
Music is so intimate and so personal that when you can find somebody that feels the same way about it that you do, it’s magic. It can be. It really can be. – Trisha Yearwood
I’ve always been a huge fantasy fan. I was always interested in fairy tales and anything with magic or dragons… I was always drawn to those types of stories. – Sarah J. Maas
Black magic operates most effectively in preconscious, marginal areas. Casual curses are the most effective. – William S. Burroughs
The magic formula that successful businesses have discovered is to treat customers like guests and employees like people. – Tom Peters
Everyone making electronic music has the same tool kits and templates. You listen, and you feel like it can be done on an iPad. If everybody knows all the tricks, it’s no more magic. – Thomas Bangalter
Magic Realism is not new. The label’s new, the specific Latin American form of it is new, its modern popularity is new, but it’s been around as long as literature has been around. – Terri Windling
I wrote for nearly six hours. When I stopped, the dark mood, as if by magic, had folded its cloak and gone away. – Zane Grey
The Rascals are something else. They’re up there with the Beatles, and Stones and Byrds. That level of musicality. They have a real chemistry. It is like magic. – Steven Van Zandt
I’m not a big fan of doing it because I get really frustrated because I can’t do any of the tricks, but I love to watch magic. – Sterling Beaumon
If I go home from a day of shooting, and I haven’t at some point felt the magic, I’m really frustrated. – Susanne Bier
I had a magic kit. I never really followed through on it, but I had my phase of wanting to do it, sure. – Steve Buscemi
