David Liss Quotes

Magic, like technology, is a tool.

I know the difference between black magic and white magic.

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

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

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

I am not a witch doctor, and in fact, you cannot have a witch doctor. You are either a witch or a doctor.

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.

He who confesses magic or sorcery shall do penance for the time of murder, and shall be treated in the same manner as he who convicts himself of this sin.

Magic is a state of mind. It is often portrayed as very black and gothic, and that is because certain practitioners played that up for a sense of power and prestige. That is a disservice. Magic is very colorful. Of this, I am sure.

For my part, I have ever believed, and do so now, that there are witches.

Yeah, I believe in all the wild, witchcraft stuff. I don't like to dabble in that, but I believe they all know something.

I think I'm a witch because I'm very connected to nature.

It's too bad that the idea of witchcraft and sorcery is a taboo subject matter.

I'd like to bring magic back to the place it used to be 100 years ago.

Witches are the kind of more traditional, home and family, craft people - so they're the ones who are making things; crocheting shawls and things like that. But then they also have that slightly confident, dangerous, edge. I always see them as having very extreme hair, either amazingly beautiful straight hair or kind of wild.

In my research, what I found most interesting was how common and ordinary magic was to people in the past.

I like to say magic is the world's second oldest profession, a mystical and often awe-inspiring spectacle that, throughout the ages, has blended superstition, trickery and religion.

In America, magic has never been an important part of peoples' lives.

I really don't believe in magic.

Indubitably, magic is one of the subtlest and most difficult of the sciences and arts. There is more opportunity for errors of comprehension, judgment and practice than in any other branch of physics.

Witchcraft is one of the most baseless, absurd, disgusting and silly of all the humbugs.

Superstitions and belief in magic are perennial in just the same way as religion, and something near to being universal among mankind; and why this is so may be interesting, but in most cases the beliefs themselves are devoid of interesting content, at least to me.

Magic really helped me.

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

In the past, people generally believed they could acquire magic in two ways: through learning the craft, either from another practitioner or from books; or through obtaining magic from a powerful being-think Faust or the classic, demonized witch, both of whom get their mojo from Satan.