Steven Heighton Quotes

I love witches and magic and dress-up and make-believe.

There's a special gut-check moment the first time you write a scene in which somebody casts a spell.

Magic is my paint.

I'd always wanted to do these types of things - pieces of magic I could put out not as illusions, but really doing it.

In a way, we are magicians. We are alchemists, sorcerers and wizards. We are a very strange bunch. But there is great fun in being a wizard.

Duh! So, we're asking you now, what are some of your favorite lines that this warlock brain produced?

I'd like to bring magic back to the place it used to be 100 years ago.

Magic, historically, has been a man doing tricks with no wider story behind it.

I did magic all my life from the time I was 12, and I like to tap into the magic from history.

I don't like magic.

I like to say magic is the world's second oldest profession, a mystical and often awe-inspiring spectacle that, throughout the ages, has blended superstition, trickery and religion.

For me, there is very little difference between magic and art. To me, the ultimate act of magic is to create something from nothing: It's like when the stage magician pulls the rabbit from the hat.

It's really hard to think of one kind of magic as a favorite. I've been really fortunate in that I've been able to perform such a diverse range of things.

For me, a great fantasy is real people, a world I recognise, human struggle and magic. You've got to have magic to make a fantasy work. But I like my magic to be subtle. I don't want magic coming out of the hands of wizards. I want it to be pervading, sinister somehow.

I was always interested in enchantment and magicians and still am.

Magic becomes art when it has nothing to hide.

Magic is really performing special effects live.

Carefully take notice of witches, charmers, and all such abusers of the people.

You don't question magic.

Magic should get under people's skins.

Rituals are magical.

I've always been so attracted to magic.

Wizarding is technical to me. When you get something that adds up to more than the sum of its parts, that feeling is magic to me. That's a kind of alchemy.

Magic has universal appeal. I don't believe in magic in the way that I describe in my books, but I'd love it to be real.

If in any quest for magic, in any search for sorcery, witchery, legerdemain, first check the human spirit.