Kate DiCamillo Quotes

I've always loved magic.

What's the main thing that makes magic magic? The fact that no one believes that it's possible.

This is how magic is done. By hurling yourself into the abyss and discovering its a feather bed.

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

Using words to describe magic is like using a screwdriver to cut roast beef.

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.

I don't like magic.

I can write, He floated up to the ceiling, and a baby rabbit came out of his pocket, grew wings, and flew away. And you will believe that it really happened. That's magic, isn't it?

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.

… a fairyland to us, for all intents and purposes—a land of enchantment and awful mystery.

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.

Only to a magician is the world forever fluid, infinitely mutable and eternally new. Only he knows the secret of change, only he knows truly that all things are crouched in eagerness to become something else, and it is from this universal tension that he draws his power.

If everybody knows all the tricks, it's no more magic.

I always say that I love magic but I hate magicians. I like being fooled. If you wave your hands in front of my face and I think you're doing a trick, I'm easily impressed. If you pull a quarter out of my ear, I'm quite certain you're a wizard. But I don't like the way most magicians don't act like they're magical; they act like show business dicks.

MAGIC, n. An art of converting superstition into coin. There are other arts serving the same high purpose, but the discreet lexicographer does not name them.

The existence of tricks does not imply the absence of magic.

My idea of magic doesn't have much to do with stage tricks and illusions. The whole world abounds in magic.

I always liked magic. I was always embarrassed by liking magic because I liked the fact that they're just lying.

Magic is easy if you put your heart into it.

There is magic, but you have to be the magician. You have to make the magic happen.

Magic is the cheat codes for the world.

Magic: (n) The art of converting superstition into coin.

And so there is magic.