Nicole Krauss Quotes

Look at this life - all mystery and magic.

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

The world is its own magic.

My work is like a dialogue between me and unseen powers, like alchemy.

Magic frightens people almost as much as it intrigues them.

The Scottish Highlands are incredible. There seems to be magic and poetry everywhere.

Magic is the mysteries into which not everyone is so lucky, or unlucky, as to be initiated. It can be affected by belief, the whims of the unseen, harsh language. And it is not. Supposed. To make. Sense. In fact, I think it's coolest when it doesn't.

But the whole idea of the transformation... mystery, transformation, and manipulations - those were the things that Marcel was a magician at. That's his magic.

You don't question magic.

There is magic on earth.

I've always been so attracted to magic.

T'is true: there's magic in the web of it.

I think acting is magic. If I tell you all about myself it will spoil it.

I always say that I love magic but I hate magicians. I like being fooled. If you wave your hands in front of my face and I think you're doing a trick, I'm easily impressed. If you pull a quarter out of my ear, I'm quite certain you're a wizard. But I don't like the way most magicians don't act like they're magical; they act like show business dicks.

Life doesn’t need magic to be magical. (But a little bit sure doesn’t hurt.)

You don't get into magic. Magic gets into you.

By the sense of mystery I understand the experience of certain places and times when one's whole nature seems to be in touch with a presence, a genius loci, a potency.

Everyone does magic all the time in different ways. "Life" plus "significance" = magic.

As a magician, I try to show things to people that seem impossible. And I think magic, whether I'm holding my breath or shuffling a deck of cards, is pretty simple. It's practice, it's training, and It's practice, it's training and experimenting, while pushing through the pain to be the best that I can be. And that's what magic is to me.

Show a little faith, there's magic in the night.

magic persists without us no matter what we may do to try to spoil it

It's still magic even if you know how it's done.

Music is Magic. Magic is Life

I don't think that there is anything that is really magical unless it has a terrifying quality.