Catherynne M. Valente Quotes

Magic should get under people's skins.

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.

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.

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.

I think that the ideal space must contain elements of magic, serenity, sorcery and mystery.

The magic, that's what keeps you playing. That's what never wears off.

Magic becomes art when it has nothing to hide.

By some strange operation of magic I seem to have become the power of the land.

There is no magic. There are only magicians.

Everyone in London, Wales, and France made the 'Merlin' experience a very, very special one.

There is magic on earth.

I've always been so attracted to magic.

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.

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.

She might even be your lovely school-teacher who is reading these words to you at this very moment. Look carefully at that teacher. Perhaps she is smiling at the absurdity of such a suggestion. Don't let that put you off. It could be part of cleverness. I am not, of course, telling you for one second that your teacher actually is a witch. All I am saying is that she might be one. It is most unlikely. But--here comes the big "but"--not impossible.

This is what magic is. It's being able to speak in a voice which makes things happen, being able to speak in a voice which causes facts to be beheld by groups of people in a way that has been purged from profane language, for us relegated to poetry and that sort of thing.

Everything that deceives does so by casting a spell.

A book had always been a door to another world... a world much more interesting and fantastical than reality. But she had finally discovered that life could be even more wonderful than fantasy. And that love could fill the real world with magic.

Let witchcraft join with beauty, lust with both!

You have witchcraft in your lips

But magic is like pizza: even when it's bad, it's pretty good.

Enchantment is the oldest form of medicine.

If you look up "charming" in the dictionary, you'll see that it not only has references to strong attraction, but to spells and magic. Then again, what are liars if not great magicians?

Books are not seldom talismans and spells.