Patrick Rothfuss Quotes

I want witchcraft so bad that I can't stand it. I have wands in my apartment. And I use them sometimes. I walk into the kitchen with my wand, and I come out with something on a platter and I say, 'See, magic happens.' Works every time.

I think every fantasy reader secretly believes they know how magic works.

Magic should get under people's skins.

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.

Bewitched is half of everything.

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

I don't particularly have any magical ambitions, but then, I never did. I just enjoyed the game.

America may have great poets and novelists, but she never will have more than one necromancer.

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

A witch is one who worketh by the Devil or by some curious art either healing or revealing things secret, or foretelling things to come which the Devil hath devised to ensnare men's souls …

The Wizard of Ooze

There is no law in Pennsylvania against riding on broomsticks.

The Wizard War

I'm still a little certain I'm a wizard.

There is no magic. There are only magicians.

When I was 12, I thought I wanted to be a witch.

I had heard stories about witches flying on a broom as a kid and I would always think, wow, they had their own private jet.

I've always been so attracted to magic.

I've always loved magic.

Magic is what it is, and those who work it can be male or female; it doesn't matter. What matters is power.

Anything that has a dragon, a wand, pixie dust, fairies, magic, any of that, I love it. I'm obsessed with it, I will read it, I will watch it, I will commit it to memory.

I'd go into the woods to look for the witches, the mythical beings.

I have always believed in magic. I used to run into the woods as a little kid looking for witches. But I'm not superstitious, because I m not afraid of it. I see it as something really beautiful, and I wouldn't want to live in a world without 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.

I'm really proud to be part of it. I think it's great that the show came back. We have another generation to fall in love with magic and the 'Charmed' sisters.