Nnedi Okorafor Quotes

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

I believe that a world that doesn't have some kind of magic in it wouldn't be worth living in.

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.

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.

I've read up on magic, and I think it sets you free, and it gives you hope. You can explore worlds you didn't know existed. It stretches your imagination, and I like my own imagination to be stretched and also the children I'm telling the story to. It gives you a sense of wonder.

Anyone who has set out to invent a purely imaginary story knows that the whole thing is fantasy, from beginning to end; there must be a sense of magic created about the most restrained of naturalism.

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.

We must not let daylight in upon the magic.

First of all, writing at best - certainly fiction writing - more and more I think is magic.

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.

I never imagined myself in a movie with magic.

I think I've really exhausted the magical. It was a lot of fun, but I've put it behind me for the time being.

I like fantasy.

I love the paranormal, because there, every genre I write can become one beacon for my imagination.

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

If a fantasy, if a story can help you feel something, I think that's really cool.

Fiction makes your dreams come true, and, as a writer, fiction allows you to delve into the area of miracles.

People ask me, 'Why angels? Why paranormal? Why teens?' In the beginning, I'm not sure I knew I was starting down any of those twisted paths - paths that now seem so familiar to me that they are downright comforting. In the beginning, I was just writing about love.

I don't want realism. I'll tell you what I want. Magic! Yes, yes, magic! I try to give that to people. I misrepresent things to them. I don't tell the truth. I tell what ought to be truth. And if that is sinful, then let me be damned for it!

I would like to evoke the sense of wonder and magic in the reader but without invoking the mystical, the supernatural or the transcendent.

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

Life would be very dreary if there were no magic. If the real world were only that veil of tears, I just don't think could get up in the morning.

Living in that childish wonder is a most beautiful feeling - I can so well remember it. There was always something more - behind and beyond everything - to me, the golden spectacles were very, very big.

I love fantasy. I grew up reading fantasy.