Alan Moore Quotes

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

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

Magic is my paint.

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

Magic, like technology, is a tool.

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.

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.

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

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.

I know the difference between black magic and white magic.

Magic has been around forever, and it's also been in trouble forever. I'm not suggesting that there was ever a time when the practice of magic was celebrated by those in power. Actually, such practices were routinely demonized by monarchs and organized religions precisely because magic is inherently democratic.

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

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

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 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.

Magic is at the core of myths.

There's a special gut-check moment the first time you write a scene in which somebody casts a spell.

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.

When it draws near to witching time of night.

I still want magic, I find. The old fashioned kind. I don't believe in it, but I still have a hankering for it.

I don't know that I have a fascination with witches per se - well, maybe I just have a fascination with everything that's weird.

Magic frightens people almost as much as it intrigues them.

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

I really don't believe in magic.

If you're going to do something, do it well. And leave something witchy.