V. E. Schwab Quotes

I consider myself a pagan and a witch.

I used to practice Wicca.

I dabbled in witchcraft but I never joined a coven… I had a date at an alter once.

I am not religious in any way, but I have a pagan ideology and pagan values.

In Witchcraft, each of us must reveal our own truth.

I have always considered myself, when I learned what the word meant, I've always considered myself a Pagan.

I believe religion is important for every person.

I grew up very religious, and I don't have a great relationship with religion.

Angels, demons, spirits, wizards, gods and witches have peppered folk religions since mankind first started telling stories.

I believe in magic, psychics and all that.

I've found a more personal, pagan kind of religion to satisfy the spiritual side of things.

People ask me whether I'm religious. Well, in a certain way, I am.

I believe in mystery and multiplicity. To religious believers this may sound almost pagan. But I don't think so.

Religion is like magic. It is all about tricks.

I don't have a spiritual bone in my body; but what I am, is religious.

I have my own faith which I've developed. It's non-denominational. I don't even know if it's about God.

The quarrels and divisions about religion were evils unknown to the heathen. The reason was because the religion of the heathen consisted rather in rites and ceremonies than in any constant belief.

I know the difference between black magic and white magic.

I don't consider myself any denomination.

I was raised a Catholic. But I am not religious. In my work, I am interested in real flesh and blood.

Contemporary paganism gives me a subjective lens through which the world in which I live can be interpreted on an aesthetic and an ethical basis. I'm interested in narrative, myth, and story, in folklore and the way we connect to the turning of the seasons and the natural world.

Witchcraft and priestcraft, were introduced into this world together, … and has gone on, hand in hand together

I don't really want to go on about my personal beliefs or my involvement in magic. I'm not interested in turning anybody on to anybody that I'm turned on to.

There are elements to my faith which are echoed very closely in the scripts that come through. I read certain moments, and I'm able to say, 'Yes, I recognize that. I champion that. I ally myself to that idea.' Then there are times where I don't. My feeling is, at this stage in my life, that it will be an ongoing struggle.

I hold religious tendencies, but I'm not devout by any means.