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Magic Quotes (page 36)

In a story you only had to wish, you only had to write it down and you could have the world...It seemed so obvious now that it was too late: a story was a form of telepathy. By means of inking symbols onto a page, she was able to send thoughts and feelings from her mind to her reader's. It was a magical process, so commonplace that no one stopped to wonder at it. Reading a sentence and understanding it were the same thing; as with the crooking of a finger, nothing lay between them. There was... Ian Mcewan
Kurt Vonnegut quote: "Only one English word adequately describes his transformation..."
Only one English word adequately describes his transformation of the islands from worthless to priceless: magical. Kurt Vonnegut
Magic--that's just a label, you know. Completely meaningless. It wasn't so very long ago that people were saying that electricity was magic. Robert Bloch
To quench my longing I bent me low By the streams of the spirits of Peace that flow In that magical wood in the land of sleep. Sarojini Naidu
Until one is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back-- Concerning all acts of initiative (and creation), there is one elementary truth that ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans: that the moment one definitely commits oneself, then Providence moves too. All sorts of things occur to help one that would never otherwise have occurred. A whole stream of events issues from the decision, raising in one's favor all manner of unforeseen incidents and meetings and... Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Rudy Rucker quote: "The world is magic. Science is but an insipid style of sorcery."
The world is magic. Science is but an insipid style of sorcery. Rudy Rucker
I'd spent a night with Ranger a while ago, and I knew what happened when he was encouraged. Ranger knew how to make a woman want him. Ranger was magic. -Stephanie Janet Evanovich
Thomas Mann quote: "Yes, they are carnal, both of them, love and death, and..."
Yes, they are carnal, both of them, love and death, and therein lies their terror and their great magic! Thomas Mann
If you only write when you’re inspired you may be a fairly decent poet, but you’ll never be a novelist because you’re going to have to make your word count today and those words aren’t going to wait for you whether you’re inspired or not. You have to write when you’re not inspired. And you have to write the scenes that don’t inspire you. And the weird thing is that six months later, a year later, you’ll look back at them and you can’t remember which scenes you wrote when you were inspired... Neil Gaiman
Neil Gaiman quote: "set your fantasies in the here and now and then, if..."
...set your fantasies in the here and now and then, if challenged, claim to be writing Magical Realism. Neil Gaiman
Hanging softly over the black Singer sewing machine, it looked like magic, and when people saw me wearing it they were going to run up to me and say, "Marguerite, forgive us, please, we didn't know who you were," and I would answer generously, "No, you couldn't have known. Of course I forgive you. Maya Angelou
Did this mean every impossible fairy tale was grounded somewhere in absolute truth? Was there anything sane or normal at all, or was everything just magic and ghost stories? Stephenie Meyer
Nowhere else than upon the sea do the days, weeks and months fall away quicker into the past. They seem to be left astern as easily as the light air-bubbles in the swirls of the ship’s wake, and vanish into a great silence in which your ship moves on with a sort of magical effect. Joseph Conrad
Federico Fellini quote: "Life is a combination of magic and pasta."
Life is a combination of magic and pasta. Federico Fellini
Words have a magical power. They can bring either the greatest happiness or deepest despair; they can transfer knowledge from teacher to student; words enable the orator to sway his audience and dictate its decisions. Words are capable of arousing the strongest emotions and prompting all men's actions. Sigmund Freud

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