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A smell of burned hair and cotton wafted into the air as I spun toward my desk. There was a low whin... JENNIFER L. ARMENTROUT
A well-composed book is a magic carpet on which we are wafted to a world that we cannot enter in any... CAROLINE GORDON
A well-composed book is a magic carpet on which we are wafted to a world that we cannot enter in any... CAROLINE GORDON I smelled smoke and my first thought was that my house was on fire. When I got outside, I could see ...
JACK ELLIOTT She believed in magic—the magic of places, the magic of people, the magic of coincidences, serendi...
JAMIE LE FAY I go to the ocean to calm down, to reconnect with the creator, to just be happy.
NNEDI OKORAFOR I grew up reading Stephen King, Peter Straub, Clive Barker, Robert McCammon, Isaac Asimov's nonf...
NNEDI OKORAFOR There's a story in 'Kabu Kabu' called 'Bakasi Man' where I got to explore the mi...
NNEDI OKORAFOR I love ocean life. I'm fascinated that so much of it remains unexplored by human beings. Diluted...
NNEDI OKORAFOR It's more fun to write villains. They are more of a challenge, and I get a sick kind of pleasure...
NNEDI OKORAFOR I would try to write 'realistic' fiction, and someone would fly, or there would be a black h...
NNEDI OKORAFOR Flawed, imperfect creatures! That's what we both are, oga! That's what we ALL are!
NNEDI OKORAFOR I think speculative fiction has fewer unspoken prerequisites than literary fiction for writers of co...
NNEDI OKORAFOR Two footsteps do not make a path.
NNEDI OKORAFOR Feet away, Professor Dema stood, carrying a large gunlike weapon with both her hands and a snarl on ...
NNEDI OKORAFOR To be something abnormal meant that you were to serve the normal. And if you refused, they hated you...
NNEDI OKORAFOR
I liked the idea of having actual magic performed as stage magic, so you could assume that it was ju... ERIN MORGENSTERN
There's a store in my neighborhood called Futon World. I like that name, 'Futon World.' ... DEMETRI MARTIN The natural world is the only one we have. To try to not see the natural world - to put on blinders ...
RICK BASS
'Divergent' was my utopian world. I mean, that wasn't the plan. I never even set out to ... VERONICA ROTH The magic of fiction lies in deluding reason that it is fiction.
RóBERT GáL As soon as I read that, it clicked: that's my theater of war. It was exciting to think that I co...
MICHAEL CHABON We came back right over the World Trade Center and could see, even from that altitude, the devastati...
HUGH SHELTON
Incidentally, the world is magical.Magic is simply what's off our human scale... at the...
VERA NAZARIAN
My magic. That was at the heart of me. It was a manifestation of what I believed, what I lived. It c... JIM BUTCHER The world is entirely magical, the only illusion is that it isn't...
LYDIA ANDAL I heard that in the United States the level of baseball was the highest in the world. So it was only...
ICHIRO SUZUKI
It's the most magical place in the world. RICHARD SIMMONS
Ghost?” I asked.Moon Man pointed to Valek. “Kiki’s name for him. It makes sense,” he s...
MARIA V. SNYDER I see my purpose in life as making the world a happier place to be in .
DAVID NIVEN She's very free-spirited and fun, not a care in the world. Like me my freshman year. I could definit...
LARISSA LUTHER
It was a story to tell myself, a promise. Saying out loud, "You're never going to touch me again" - ... DOROTHY ALLISON
I think my writing was certainly shaped from having lived in a place like Niverville as well as by t... DAVID BERGEN
I began to feel again something that I had been only dimly aware of before. It was a small, surprisi... JERRY SPINELLI We call it a wardrobe. It's a magic place where children find out that the world is a place of infin...
ANDREW ADAMSON It hurts your heart to see New Orleans, the place where I'm from, looking like a Third World country...
ALAN RICARD
It is a good viewpoint to see the world as a dream. When you have something like a nightmare, you wi... YAMAMOTO TSUNETOMO
No one was going to stop me from writing and no one had to really guide me towards science fiction. ... OCTAVIA BUTLER It's dancing! It's magical, actually. A kind of slowish magic. Like writing with your feet.
KATHERINE RUNDELL
My doctor says that I have a malformed public-duty gland and a natural deficiency in moral fibre and... DOUGLAS ADAMS
England in the late 1940s was famously grim. As I remember it, London back then was a very dirty pla... ALEXANDER COCKBURN
It didn't matter to her that Tamani only had weak magic, he was magic. APRILYNNE PIKE Nothing was a natural predator of productive fiction writing like the cell phone. Ditto the laptop. ...
ELIN HILDERBRAND To make the world a better place, see the world as a better place.
ALAN COHEN
Oh, the most important thing about myself is that my life has been full of changes. Therefore, when ... CHINUA ACHEBE
The most important thing about myself is that my life has been full of changes. Therefore, when I ob... CHINUA ACHEBE It was so smoky. I was a little freaked out because we were on the top of that mountain, and we coul...
KELLY STONE
Oh yeah, I smoke like a chimney. I'm cast iron! And if I'm not, I'll see you in the next world. KEITH RICHARDS I think that magic, at its root, is a very abstract notion. There's no real, approved definition...
DRUMMOND MONEY-COUTTS Black Girls create magic, so that makes me magical.
STEPHANIE LAHART Black Moms create magic, so that makes me magical.
STEPHANIE LAHART Music has that ability to be a magical thing, and I was like, maybe music is the vehicle that transp...
ZACK SNYDER
Moreover, no one is judged from the natural man, thus not so long as he lives in the natural world, ... EMANUEL SWEDENBORG
I felt like I was building this world brick by brick with each layer of instrumentation I was doing.... WASHED OUT
It's not that I bounce ideas off of my children as much as it is that having children has had a ... JULIANNA BAGGOTT We must therefore rediscover, after the natural world, the social world, not as an object or sum of ...
MAURICE MERLEAU-PONTY
Like legend and myth, magic fades when it is unused -- hence all the old tales of elfin kingdoms mov... CHARLES DE LINT This is too much reality for a Friday.
AS GOOD AS IT GETS Fiction becomes a place where I face certain fears such as losing language or losing my children.
BEN MARCUS
My mind has become somewhat like a book. What I mean by that is that when I look at the world, I see... AVI
Compassion has no place in the natural order of the world which operates on the basis of necessity. ... JOHN BERGER
I exist only as a whole; my only claim is to be natural, and the pleasure I feel in an action, I tak... ANDRé GIDE
I cannot believe that my illness is natural. I suspect Satan, and therefore I am the more inclined t... MARTIN LUTHER Reading is like magic--I think I've made my case. Without the gift of words, this world's a crazy pl...
DENISE WALTER MCCONDUIT There was no need for a term like ‘magical thinking’ in the Golden Age of Man...there was only g...
ANTHON ST. MAARTEN The kids all love the movie. We had a magical time making it. We had fun every day. There was magic ...
BILL BORDEN The world is only as small as we see it, my lady. Imagination knows no limits.
C.W. GORTNER I was happy they opened over here because it's the only place that has food from my country.
HENRY MARTINEZ
I think what will happen is that fiction will become more like poetry. As in, the only people who re... GARY SHTEYNGART
My bed is a magical place where I suddenly remember everything I forgot to do. ANONYMOUS My view is that popular fiction as it existed was just plain dumb, and literary fiction was either a...
SCOTT TUROW She always talked about how people didn't realize how beautiful of a place it was, how blue the wate...
LEIGH ANNE HARDIN As I've gotten older, I've wanted to represent Las Vegas more. Represent the Southwest. It&#...
BRANDON FLOWERS
Fairy tales were not my escape from reality as a child; rather, they were my reality -- for mine was... TERRI WINDLING I would say, maybe from five years on, I sang on stages constantly. That's what I call my natura...
CASSADEE POPE
And as if by magic - and it may have been magic, for I believe America is the land of magic, and tha... GENE WOLFE There's magic all around us: Our smartphones are magical, 3-D printers are magical. So I feel th...
MICHAEL CARBONARO O king! I was but a man like others, asleep upon my couch, when lo, the breezes of the All-Glorious ...
BAHA'U'LLAH
My doctor says that I have a malformed public duty gland and a natural deficiency in moral fibre,' h... DOUGLAS ADAMS People are always looking for magic, when the natural world holds true miracles
AVERY WILLIAMS
I have for a long time loved fabulist, imaginative fiction, such as the writing of Italo Calvino, Jo... ALAN LIGHTMAN To my mind, ‘magic’ is the hard-to-define quality of the things that stir up mystical feelings l...
BRENDAN MYERS
Over the drop, a luminous pond lay below them like a pale magic lantern. It was as if the moon had p... SARA SHERIDAN
From my earliest acquaintance with the science of political economy, it has been evident to my mind ... LELAND STANFORD My interest was magic, believe it or not. I became an amateur magician and did something like 400 ma...
DAVID POGUE Glass is the most magical of all materials. It transmits light in a special way ... I'm pleased that...
DALE CHIHULY
You know what I'd really like to do the most right now? Climb up to the top of some high place like ... HARUKI MURAKAMI
In the next place, wonderful as it seems in a sexual world, the Martians were absolutely without sex... H.G. WELLS But it wasn't their separation that was consuming my mind just then; it was Evelyn's garden. Bee had...
SARAH JIO
I don't believe in the kind of magic in my books. But I do believe something very magical can happen... J.K. ROWLING My mother was working on her college degree throughout my childhood, and being the youngest in the f...
VALORIE CURRY When I designed my loft, I literally framed the World Trade Center as a picture postcard I could see...
BERNARD TSCHUMI Fearlessness is like a muscle. I know from my own life that the more I exercise it the more natural ...
ARIANNA HUFFINGTON She waves the match in the air like a magic wand and its flame transforms into a puff of smoke. The ...
CARRIE ANNE NOBLW
I only ever play Vegas one night at a time. It's a hideous, gaudy place; it may not be the end o... ROBIN WILLIAMS
I always write 'Magic Potion' on my perfume bottles so when I use them, it feels magical - I... ALEXA CHUNG Perhaps that is the best way to say it: printed books are magical, and real bookshops keep that magi...
JEN CAMPBELL Always Be Ready For Anything that Comes: Bananas, Chips, College, an Opportunity, so when it does yo...
DANIEL OJEDA I came up the hill on the restart, and all I could see was smoke and cars spinning into the wall, so...
BRIAN FRISSELLE Just for those few magic moments today, this place was rockin', this place was rockin'. The magic wa...
GIL REYES
