H. P. Lovecraft Quotes

For a human audience, seeing things that are slightly more otherworldly and beyond human power is always really fun and exciting to watch.

When I put magic into a book - whether it's a wizard or a crusty old werewolf - I'm asking a reader to swallow a huge leap that is counter to everything he or she knows. An extra big helping of reality makes that leap go down a lot easier.

Anything that we think is incredible and beautiful and wonderful, we ascribe to something that we don't know what it is.

I am a great admirer of mystery and magic. Look at this life - all mystery and magic.

Bracketing has turned all my experiences, remembered and present, into a gallery of miracles where I wander around dazzled by the beauty of events I cannot explain.

… a fairyland to us, for all intents and purposes—a land of enchantment and awful mystery.

I'm an average enough person to point to the things I've gotten to see that are awe-inspiring.

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

We must not let daylight in upon the magic.

Magic provides a way of still having room for possibilities, an unlimited sense of what the world offers. Magic is always there when science is found wanting.

Every book that you pick up takes you a step away from your real world, but if you read a book about magic, it takes you an extra two steps.

The storyline of a fantasy novel is filled with such a sense of enchantment, beauty and strangeness; it allows the writer to explore the big ontological questions of life that would sound like a sermon in a social realist novel.

Cobras are magical. They can stand up on just energy alone.

I never imagined myself in a movie with magic.

Magic frightens people almost as much as it intrigues them.

The genre of fantasy is about magic and occult characters.

I see the world as a magical place. Therefore, it was only natural that magic wafted from my fiction like smoke.

I can write, He floated up to the ceiling, and a baby rabbit came out of his pocket, grew wings, and flew away. And you will believe that it really happened. That's magic, isn't it?

A child did approach me in a restaurant in Cornwall, but he thought I was Gandalf.

Writing about magic is harder than writing about spies because you're dealing with something that doesn't really exist.

Genius is another word for magic, and the whole point of magic is that it is inexplicable.

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'm a fantasy writer, called a fantasy writer. But there's very little, apart from one or two basic concepts in 'I Shall Wear Midnight,' which are in fact fantasy. You have sticks that fly, but they're practical broomsticks, with a bloody great strap that you can hold on to so you don't fall off. And you try not to use them too often.

Magic speaks to the child in all of us. No matter how sophisticated we become, there's still a part of us who wants to believe in an alternative reality, where we can defy the laws of nature.

This is magic we're talking about. It's supposed to go places science can't, defy logic, wink at technology, fill us all with the sensawunda that comes of gazing upon a fictional world and seeing something truly different from our own.